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.
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
My sympathies have always been for working-class people.
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
Imagine a history teacher making history.
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.