McAuliffe backup scheduled for next Columbia mission (My Title)

Washington Post ^ | Saturday, February 1, 2003; 7:15 PM | D'Vera Cohn and William Harwood

[Cooter]

But NASA had planned to launch Columbia to the station on its next flight in November, a mission featuring the agency's first educator astronaut, Barbara Morgan. Morgan was the backup to the first "teacher in space," Christa McAuliffe, who died in the Challenger disaster.

[Cooter]

Excerpt from the Washington Post on Saturday. I just found this tidbit interesting. Barbara Morgan may be either the luckiest - or unluckiest (depending on your perspective) - person at NASA. She was next in line for the teacher-in-space gig on Challenger, and she was also next in line for a Columbia mission. Eerie.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Eerie.

It reminds me of this woman: Violet Jessop, Survivor of the Titanic, Olympic and Britannic Shipwrecks.