| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38365 |
| QUOTATION: | Just opening up the door, having this ordinary person fly, says a lot for the future. You can always equate astronauts with explorers who were subsidized. Now you are getting someone going just to observe. And then you’ll have the settlers. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Christa McAuliffe (1948–1986), U.S. schoolteacher. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 29 (February 10, 1986).
McAuliffe had been chosen from among thousands of teacher-applicants to accompany the crew of the Challenger on a space mission. The spaceship took off on January 28, 1986, and exploded in midair. McAuliffe would have been the first non-astronaut to travel in space. |
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