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. Christa McAuliffe Read Quote
When I’m 60, maybe, I’ll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year? Christa McAuliffe Read Quote
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. Christa McAuliffe Read Quote
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. Christa McAuliffe Read Quote
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. Christa McAuliffe Read Quote
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. Christa McAuliffe Read Quote
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. Christa McAuliffe Read Quote
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. Christa McAuliffe Read Quote
