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Barbara Radding Morgan
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Born |
Barbara Radding
November 28, 1951 Fresno, California, U.S.
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Status | Retired |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Teacher Astronaut |
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NASA Astronaut | |
Time in space
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12d 17h 53 m |
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Missions | STS-118 |
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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.
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Christa McAuliffe and Morgan in December 1985.
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