Christa McAuliffe Quotes

• When I’m 60, maybe, I’ll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

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• 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 excitement about HER going up!

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• 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 happen and that can happen.

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  Tags in Happen, Said, Realize

• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Important, Travel

• Space is going to be commonplace.

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• 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 everything’s gonna be in a few years.

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

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• 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.

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• My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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• My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

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  Tags in Write, Journal, Experiments

• It’s not the Olympics. It’s Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I’m part of.

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  Tags in Community, Reflect

• 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.

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  Tags in Interested, Program, Public

• If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

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  Tags in Excitement

• If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

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• 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 lessons from space.

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  Tags in Give, Space, Information

• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Little, Wonderful

• I touch the future. I teach.

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  Tags in Teach

• 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.

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  Tags in Jealous, Made, Excited

Christa McAuliffe (25)

Birth:	2nd September, 1948
Death:	28th January, 1986
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Teacher

About

Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. She received her bachelor's degree in education and history from Framingham State College in 1970, and also a master's in education supervision and administration from Bowie State University in 1978. She obtained her first teaching position in 1970, as an American history teacher at Benjamin Foulois Junior High School in Morningside, Maryland. On July 23, 2004, she and all the other 13 astronauts lost in both the Challenger and Columbia disasters were posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor by President George W. Bush.

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