NASA astronaut Barbara Morgan, a mission specialist aboard Endeavour during STS-118 will visit Hawaii Jan. 25-31. While in the “Aloha State,” Morgan will give a firsthand account of her recent mission ...

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Former NASA astronaut and Teacher In Space Barbara Morgan told educators at the Space Symposium last week that increasing the time, resources and creativity given to science education is key to ...

BOISE — She has soared through space at 5 miles per second, taught hundreds of elementary school students and provided vision and leadership for the state’s science and technology education programs.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- When former schoolteacher Barbara Morgan leaves Earth on a space shuttle this week, she hopes her students back in Idaho learn a lesson from her 22-year wait to get into orbit: ...

HOUSTON, July 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronaut Barbara Morgan, whose 22-year association with NASA has taken her from an Idaho elementary classroom to a mission specialist seat on the next space ...

Astronaut Barbara Morgan's lessons from space that she gave to students on Earth during the space shuttle mission that ended last week was more than 21 1/2 years in the making. Morgan, of course, was ...

Earlier this year, former elementary school teacher and astronaut Barbara Morgan finally made it to space on the shuttle Endeavour. In 1986, Morgan was the backup for Christa McAuliffe, the teacher on ...

HOUSTON, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's first educator astronaut and former Idaho school teacher Barbara Morgan, set to fly in space this summer, will meet with hundreds of students during ...