Christa McAuliffe Space Quotations

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.

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.

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

Space is going to be commonplace.

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.

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.

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.