It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle. — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight,… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same. — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
