The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen t…

“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 · Experience

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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.

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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.

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I touch the future. I teach.

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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

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