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Film & TV
Fresno, California, USA
Known for
- Challenger: The Final Flight — Self - Teacher2020
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Key facts
- Born
- Barbara Radding , ( 1951-11-28 ) November 28, 1951 (age 74) , Fresno, California , U.S.
- Education
- Stanford University ( BS )
- Spouse
- Clay Morgan
- Time in space
- 12d 17h 53m
- Selection
- Teacher in Space Project (1985) NASA Group 17 (1998)
- Missions
- STS-118
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 17
- Given name
- Barbara
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Fresno
- Occupation
- teacher
- Employer
- Boise State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Barbara morgan.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space Project as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. In 1998, eight years after the Teacher in Space Project had ended, she was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate, training as a mission specialist; astronaut Morgan flew on STS-118 in August 2007. As such, she became the first teacher (by original career) to go into space.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barbara Morgan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.