Christa McAuliffe Quotes

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

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  Vision, World, Village

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• May your future be limited only by your dreams!

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  Dream, May, Your Future

  "New Hampshire Town Reeling From Shock, Grief" by Bob Drogin in "The Los Angeles Times", Januray 30, 1986.

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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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  Dream, Teacher, Teaching

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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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  Math, Space, People

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

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  Push Yourself

  "Remembering the Challenger Space Shuttle" by Corine Gatti, www.beliefnet.com.

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

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  Stars, Space, Reaching

  "Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986". Time magazine, content.time.com. February 10, 1986.

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• Imagine a history teacher making history.

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  Teacher, Imagine, Making History

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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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  Jobs, Space, Done

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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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  Teacher, School, Space Flight

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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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  Journey, Space, Giving

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• Space is going to be commonplace.

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  Space, Corny, Commonplace

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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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  Jealous, Moon, Men

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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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  Summer, Weed, Believe

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• Every shuttle mission's been successful.

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  Successful, Missions

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

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  Teacher, Lessons, Teach

  "American Heroes of Exploration and Flight". Book by Anne E. Schraff, p. 102, 1996.

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

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  Goodbye, Farewell, 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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  Travel, Space, House

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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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  Unique, Opportunity, Space

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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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  Space, Pioneers, Wagons

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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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  Husband, Thinking, Deals

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• If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

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  Emotion, Excitement, Ifs

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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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  Husband, Real, Thinking

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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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  Years, Looks, Paper

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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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  Space, Giving, Details

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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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  School, Eyebrows, Space

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