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Barbara Morgan

Barbara Morgan

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Flight record

first and only flightFirst and only flight year 2007.
1Flight
12d 17hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks

Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.

Biography

Barbara Radding Morgan 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.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Background

Born in
Fresno
Education
Stanford University; Notre Dame de Namur University; Herbert Hoover High School
Awards
Women in Space Science Award

From Wikidata.

Flights

Born 1951-11-28 · age 74