Christa McAuliffe Quotes & Sayings

May your future be limited only by your dreams! — 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. — Christa McAuliffe

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

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement. — Christa McAuliffe

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

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people. — Christa McAuliffe

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson. — Christa McAuliffe

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

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. — Christa McAuliffe

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

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

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

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

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came. — Christa McAuliffe

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! — Christa McAuliffe

Every shuttle mission's been successful. — Christa McAuliffe

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars! — 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

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

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

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. — Christa McAuliffe

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. — Christa McAuliffe

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of. — Christa McAuliffe

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 have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon. — Christa McAuliffe

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. — Christa McAuliffe

Space is going to be commonplace. — Christa McAuliffe

My sympathies have always been for working-class people. — Christa McAuliffe

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same. — Christa McAuliffe

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

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

I touch the future. I teach. — Christa McAuliffe

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year? — Christa McAuliffe