"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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"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."
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"I touch the future. I teach."
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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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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
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