Christa McAuliffe

“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 it.”

“My students are very excited. They’re very supportive. But they’re also very selfish. They want me to come back.”

“I touch the future. I teach.”

“What are we doing? We're reaching for the stars.”

“You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is okay.”

“That's one of the things I want to bring back to the classroom, that you can risk, you can try, and you can maybe succeed. And if you don't, you can still keep trying.”

“Imagine a history class, in which you are learning about the Age of Exploration. And the teacher says, 'All right, class, we're going to go out and explore the universe.'”

“I'm a teacher. I'm a woman. I'm a mother. And I'm going up in space. And I'm representing a lot of people.”