Christa McAuliffe Quotes

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• You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples…
• Imagine a history teacher making history,
• 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 new…
• What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!
• If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.
• Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where…
• I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.
• If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the…
• Space is going to be commonplace.
• I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.
• If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.
• Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.
• 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…
• Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
• It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
• I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.
• I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and…
• 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…
• Every shuttle mission's been successful.
• My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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