Christa McAuliffe quotes

Christa McAuliffe was an American educator and teacher who gained international recognition as a member of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew. Selected for NASA’s Teacher in Space Project, she was set to be the first teacher in space. She inspired many with her courage and dedication to education. Here are 31 of her quotes:

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can. (Christa McAuliffe)
I touch the future. I teach. View quote
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What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars. View quote
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May your future be limited only by your dreams! View quote
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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. View quote
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No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson. View quote
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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. View quote
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I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people. View quote
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I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. View quote
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Space is going to be commonplace. View quote
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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. (Christa McAuliffe)
Every shuttle mission's been successful. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement. View quote
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When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year? View quote
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If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My sympathies have always been for working-class people. (Christa McAuliffe)
I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Christa McAuliffe

Christa McAuliffe - Image
Occupation: American Educator
Born: September 2, 1948
Died: January 28, 1986
Quotes count: 31
Wikipedia: Christa McAuliffe

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