Christa McAuliffe Quotes & Sayings

“I touch the future. I teach.”

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

“Reach for the stars.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

“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 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.”