Barbara Morgan

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.^[1]

Barbara Radding Morgan
Born	Barbara Radding (1951-11-28) November 28, 1951 (age 74) Fresno, California, U.S.
Status	Retired
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Teacher Astronaut
Space career
NASA Astronaut
Time in space	12d 17h 53 m
Selection	Teacher in Space Project (1985) NASA Astronaut Group 17 (1998)
Missions	STS-118
Mission insignia

She then trained as a Mission Specialist, and flew on STS-118 in August 2007.