Christa McAuliffe quotes
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“I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.”
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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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“I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.”
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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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“You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!”
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“Imagine a history teacher making history,”
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“Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.”
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“What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!”
-- Christa McAuliffeSource : "Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986". Time magazine, content.time.com. February 10, 1986.
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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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“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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“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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“Every shuttle mission's been successful.”
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“My sympathies have always been for working-class people.”
-- Christa McAuliffeSource : Jerome Liebling, Carroll T. Hartwell, Ken Burns, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Photographers' Gallery (1995). “The people, yes”
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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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“May your future be limited only by your dreams!”
-- Christa McAuliffeSource : "New Hampshire Town Reeling From Shock, Grief" by Bob Drogin in "The Los Angeles Times", Januray 30, 1986.
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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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“No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.”
-- Christa McAuliffeSource : "American Heroes of Exploration and Flight". Book by Anne E. Schraff, p. 102, 1996.
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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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“Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.”
-- Christa McAuliffeSource : "Remembering the Challenger Space Shuttle" by Corine Gatti, www.beliefnet.com.
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“It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school.”
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“Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.”
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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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“I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.”
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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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“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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“If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.”
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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 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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