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Barbara Morgan

1951 - Today

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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 Project as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. In 1998, eight years after the Teacher in Space Project had ended, she was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate, training as a mission specialist; astronaut Morgan flew on STS-118 in August 2007. As such, she became the first teacher (by original career) to go into space. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Morgan is the 236th most popular astronaut (down from 195th in 2019), the 8,578th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,311th in 2019) and the 108th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Barbara Morgan ranks 236 out of 556. Before her are William B. Lenoir, Yelena Kondakova, Piers Sellers, Robert S. Kimbrough, Ivan Bella, and Sergei Avdeyev. After her are Yuri Baturin, James P. Bagian, Yuri Gidzenko, Mikhail Tyurin, Jeffrey Williams, and Samantha Cristoforetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Barbara Morgan ranks 452. Before her are Ed Royce, León Gieco, Norman I. Platnick, Don Quarrie, Pyotr Mamonov, and François Bracci. After her are Mustafa A. G. Abushagur, Bill Frisell, Lyudmila Narusova, Konrad Weise, Trilok Gurtu, and Susan Blackmore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Morgan ranks 8,580 out of 20,380. Before her are Chelsea Clinton (1980), Jiah Khan (1988), Kyle Eastwood (1968), Yvonne Rainer (1934), Alison Lurie (1926), and Frankie Lymon (1942). After her are Toni Frissell (1907), Edwin Graves (1897), Frederick Hovey (1868), Sarah Palfrey Cooke (1912), Perry McGillivray (1893), and Walter J. Ong (1912).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Barbara Morgan ranks 108. Before her are Donald H. Peterson (1933), Bernard A. Harris Jr. (1956), Mary L. Cleave (1947), John Casper (1943), William B. Lenoir (1939), and Robert S. Kimbrough (1967). After her are James P. Bagian (1952), Jeffrey Williams (1958), Joseph P. Kerwin (1932), Story Musgrave (1935), Donald E. Williams (1942), and Clayton Anderson (1959).

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