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
ready teacher
I don't think any teacher is as ready as I am,
teacher imagine making-history
Imagine a history teacher making history,
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.
teacher lessons teach
No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.
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.
dream teacher teaching
You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!
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 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.
american-astronaut touch
I touch the future. I teach. That's going with me.
appreciate future touch
I touch the future. I teach. I really appreciate that sentiment. That's going with me.
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.
stars reaching reaching-for-the-stars
What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!