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Christa McAuliffe

"Space is going to be commonplace."

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"I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men."
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"If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came."
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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."
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"I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated."
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"It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of."
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"I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon."
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"We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen."
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"We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!"
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"If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement."
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"My sympathies have always been for working-class people."
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