We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look bac… — Christa McAuliffe

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!

Christa McAuliffeAstronaut · American · 1948 – 1986

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. — Samuel Johnson
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came. — Christa McAuliffe
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of. — Christa McAuliffe
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