Christa McAuliffe

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

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.

I don't like to get in front of people.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.