Quote by Christa McAuliffe
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citiz

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

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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. – Christa McAuliffe

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teacher
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If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public whats going on up there in the space program, then my jobs been done. – Christa McAuliffe

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Science
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My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs. – Jeffrey Kluger

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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. – Henri Poincare

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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. – Andrew Cohen

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