NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. — 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
