Christa McAuliffe Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Christa McAuliffe Quotes and Sayings
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Every shuttle mission's been successful.
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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.
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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.
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I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.
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I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.
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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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I touch the future. I teach.
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I touch the future. I teach. That's going with me.
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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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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 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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If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.
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If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.
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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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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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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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My sympathies have always been for working-class people.
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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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Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
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Reach for the stars.
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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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Space is going to be commonplace.
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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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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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This is a kind of a personal message from me, and that is that teachers are good communicators, they do an important job in our society.
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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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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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When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?
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