Facts about Christa McAuliffe
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Christa McAuliffe was a famous Astronaut from USA, who lived between September 2, 1948 and January 28, 1986.
Zodiac etc.
He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful.
Our collection contains 26 quotes who is written / told by Christa.
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Famous quotes by Christa McAuliffe (26)
"When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Space is going to be commonplace"
"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 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"
"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"
"Every shuttle mission's been successful"
"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"
"Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can"
"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"
"My sympathies have always been for working-class people"
"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"
"It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of"
"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"
"If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement"
"If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"I touch the future. I teach"
"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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