About Christa McAuliffe: is not recognized
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.
If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.
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.
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.
