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
math space people
Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.
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.
journey space giving
I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.
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.
school eyebrows space
I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.
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.
space corny commonplace
Space is going to be commonplace.
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 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.
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.
ready teacher
I don't think any teacher is as ready as I am,
american-astronaut people sat
We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!
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.
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.