Barbara Morgan

Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space program as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. She then trained as a mission specialist, and flew on STS-118 in August 2007. She is the first teacher to have been to space. NASA biography - Barbara Morgan July 2010

NASA Shuttle Missions

STS-118 Education Resources

Barbara Morgan: No Limits, 2008 Idaho Public Television documentary

Barbara Morgan Commencement Speaker: Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont CA Commencement

Barbara R. Morgan Elementary School Archived January 6, 2022, at the Wayback Machine - McCall, Idaho - opened 2008

Adler Planetarium Women in Space Science Award

Barbara Morgan at IMDb

Barbara Morgan interview (1985) explaining how she wanted to fly in space since way back when the first chimp was being launched