“I touch the future. I teach.”
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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.
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.
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.
There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.