Barbara Morgan

Barbara Radding Morgan, known as Barby, is an American educator and astronaut, born on 28 November 1951 in Fresno, California. She earned a bachelor of arts in human biology from Stanford University in 1973 and taught at the McCall-Donnell School in McCall, Idaho. Chosen in 1985 as the backup to Christa McAuliffe in NASA's Teacher in Space program, she was later selected as an astronaut on 4 June 1998. She flew once, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-118 from 8 to 21 August 2007, logging 12 days 17 hours 55 minutes in space. She retired from NASA in August 2008 and became an educator at Boise State University in Idaho. Her listed interests include classical flute, jazz, literature, hiking, swimming and cross-country skiing.