Christa McAuliffe Quotes

Every shuttle mission’s been successful.

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.

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

When I’m 60, maybe, I’ll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

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.

Space is going to be commonplace.

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.

May your future be limited only by your dreams!