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.
More Quotes by Christa McAuliffe
I touch the future. I teach.
Reach for the stars.
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.
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.
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.