Christa McAuliffe

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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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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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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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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I touch the future. I teach.

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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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My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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Quotes by Christa McAuliffe