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Christa McAuliffe

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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.


— Christa McAuliffe


#done #general #general public #get #going

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.


— Christa McAuliffe


#concord #hampshire #homecoming #i #new

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.


— Christa McAuliffe


#also #am #class #conducting #earth

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.


— Christa McAuliffe


#been #people #sympathies #working-class

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.


— Christa McAuliffe


#always #am #dreamed #flight #go

Reach for the stars.


— Christa McAuliffe


#reach for the stars #stars

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.


— Christa McAuliffe


#call #everything #few #frantic #get

Space is going to be commonplace.


— Christa McAuliffe


#going #space

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.


— Christa McAuliffe


#citizen #excitement #experience #felt #important

The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.


— Christa McAuliffe


#going #kids #lifetime #neat #passengers






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She received her bachelor's degree in education and history from Framingham State College in 1970 and also a Master of Arts from Bowie State University in 1978. Out of the initial applicant pool 114 semi-finalists were nominated by state territorial and agency review panels. "
In the autumn of that year McAuliffe and Morgan each took a year-long leave of absence from teaching in order to train for a space shuttle mission in early 1986.

She received her bachelor's degree in education and history from Framingham State College in 1970 and also a Master of Arts from Bowie State University in 1978. In 1985 McAuliffe was selected from more than 11000 applicants to participate in the NASA Teacher in Space Project and was scheduled to become the first teacher in space. As a member of mission STS-51-L Christa McAuliffe was planning to conduct experiments and teach two lessons from Space Shuttle Challenger.

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