American - Astronaut | September 2, 1948 - January 28, 1986
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
Christa McAuliffe
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I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.
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Reach for the stars.
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I touch the future. I teach.
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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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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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Space is going to be commonplace.
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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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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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I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.
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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.
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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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