"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
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"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.“
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