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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.

Christa McAuliffe

I touch the future. I teach.

Christa McAuliffe

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.

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

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.

Christa McAuliffe