Christa McAuliffe Quotes

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

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

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 really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

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

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!

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

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

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

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.

I touch the future. I teach.

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

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.