” 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. “
” The Twilight Zone’ wasn’t around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle. “
” 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. “
” Space is going to be commonplace. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
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