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 the backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 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. Leading up to STS-118 Morgan joined Sally Ride and Shannon Lucid as female astronauts widely covered by the media.
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