I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of. — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share
If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came. — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share
