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Sharon Christa McAuliffe (born Sharon Christa Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire and one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

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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.

Community, Concord, Homecoming, Olympics, Reflect

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Frontier, Know, Math, People, Space

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

Push, Push Yourself, Reach

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.

Jealous, John, Landed, Men, Moon, Thrilled

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.

Eyebrows, People, Populated, Russians, School, Space

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

Personal, Pioneers, Same, Space, Wagon, Wagons

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

Lesson, Lessons, Teach, Teacher

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

Life, Magazine, Magazines, Men, Moon

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.

Farewell, Goodbye, People, Say

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Happened, Looks, Maybe, Paper, Wonder, Years

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

Area, Field, Giving, Journey, Space

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

Missions, Shuttle, Successful

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

Call, Husband, Real, Sense, Steve, Thinking

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

Dream, Dreams, Future, Limited, May, Your Future

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

Came, Deals, Husband, Think, Thinking

Imagine a history teacher making history.

History, Imagine, Making, Making History, Teacher

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

Class, People, Sympathies, Working Class

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

Abilities, Join, Opportunity, Restart, Space, Unique

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

Details, Giving, Mission, Program, Space

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

Reaching, Space, Stars

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