“What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.”

—  Christa McAuliffe

"Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986" in TIME magazine (10 February 1986) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960597,00.html

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American educator and astronaut 1948–1986

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