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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" My sympathies have always been for working-class people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful. "

" Reach for the stars. "

" Every shuttle mission's been successful. "

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

" I touch the future. I teach. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "