Christa McAuliffe American Astronaut Quotations

I touch the future. I teach. That's going with me.

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.

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!

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.

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.