Christa Mcauliffe quotes

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

Reach for the stars.

I touch the future. I teach.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

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.

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.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

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 program, then my job's been done.

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.

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 when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

Space is going to be commonplace.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

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 program, then my job's been done.