My job in space will be to observe and write a jou... -Christa McAuliffe

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.

Christa McAuliffe , Astronaut
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American astronaut and teacher, tragically perished in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.

Christa McAuliffe Quotes to Explore

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all American...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 sp...
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 sh...
Space is going to be commonplace....
I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought ...
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 jo...
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 drea...

Space Quotes to Explore

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launc...
More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidate...
We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was - I'd already been an astronaut for a decade when t...
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't ...
People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has ...
When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work....
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans....
After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is...
The thing for me is that 'Thor' was an indie film that just had a few more zeros on the budget. At heart, it is just a simple story about a guy trying...
I've had a lot of experience with not allowing myself to experience certain emotions, like anger and confidence, and with acting you're in this space ...