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
american-astronaut good job message personal teachers
This is a kind of a personal message from me, and that is that teachers are good communicators, they do an important job in our society.
american-astronaut touch
I touch the future. I teach. That's going with me.
jobs space done
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.
space giving watches
I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.
husband thinking deals
If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.
husband real thinking
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.
years looks paper
When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?
teacher imagine making-history
Imagine a history teacher making history,
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.
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.