Space: Teacher in Space Backup Barbara Morgan to Fly in Next Shuttle Flight

Barbara in 1986 with Christa McAuliffe, the Teacher in Space, who perished in the Challenger Explosion on January 28, 1986.


image source: http://www.spacetoday.org/Astronauts/BarbaraMorganTeacherAstronaut.html

She was 35 years old at the time of the photo. She stayed with the NASA program and now, 21 years later, Barbara is set to go on board STS-118 on August 7, 2007 as an educator-astronaut and mission specialist.



image source: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/morgan.html



image source: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-118/ndxpage1.html

The crew with the Space Shuttle Endeavour in the background on the launch pad.

Godspeed to the crew of STS-118 and to Barbara Morgan!