Quotes by Christa McAuliffe

"I touch the future. I teach."

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

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"Reach for the stars."

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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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"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."

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"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."

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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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