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
I touch the future. I teach.
– Christa McAuliffe
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
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.
– Christa McAuliffe
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.