Christa McAuliffe Quotes

"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!"
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Thought, People, Excitement, Night)

"When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?"
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Wonder)

"I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Life, Men, Moon, Walking)

"If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Emotion, 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 everything's gonna be in a few years."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Husband, Sense, Years)

"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."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Kids, Space, Twilight, Will, Zone)

"Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can."
- Christa McAuliffe

"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
(Related: Public, School, Space)

"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."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Experience, Travel, Americans, Excitement, President, Space)

"My sympathies have always been for working-class people."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: People)

"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."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Life, Class, Earth, Job, Space, Students, Teaching, Will)

"It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Community)

"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."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Science, Job, Public, Space)

"If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Time, Husband)

"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."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Information, Mission, Space, Will)

"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."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Space, Will)

"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

"I touch the future. I teach."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Future)

"I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: People, Goodbye, Want)

"I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: History, Life, Opportunity, Space)

"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."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Thought, People, First, School, Space)

"Every shuttle mission's been successful."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Successful, Mission)

"Space is going to be commonplace."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: 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."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Men, Moon, News, Space)

"Reach for the stars."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Stars)