Christa McAuliffe
Christa McAuliffe
Sharon Christa McAuliffewas an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth2 September 1948
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Christa McAuliffe quotes about
twilight kids thinking
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.
travel space house
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.
jobs teaching writing
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.
unique opportunity space
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.
teacher lessons teach
No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.
community olympics homecoming
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
push-yourself
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
summer weed believe
It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school.
space wagons pioneers
Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.
teacher school space-flight
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.
space corny commonplace
Space is going to be commonplace.
successful missions
Every shuttle mission's been successful.
american-astronaut concerned crew kinda program whether
I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful.
american-astronaut amount pounds
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.