National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Barbara Morgan

United States of America

Barbara Morgan
Retired

Biography

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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.

Type

Government

Age

74

Date of Birth

November 28, 1951

First Flight

August 8, 2007

Last Flight

August 8, 2007

Career Stats

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1

Flights

1

Landings

0

Spacewalks

P12DT17H56M18S

Time in Space

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