Christa McAuliffe Quotes

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

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.

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.

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.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!

By the time I finished high school, I knew I wanted to become an astronomer. By the time I finished college, I knew I wanted to be part of the American space program. And that's exactly what I did.

As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space."

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

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.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I actually want to go up into space.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.