Barbara Morgan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1951-11-28
Status Retired
Type Government
Astronaut 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.
