Christa McAuliffe Astronaut Quotations

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.

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.

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!

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.

I touch the future. I teach. That's going with me.