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To: NormsRevenge
With absolutely no disrespect to Barbara Morgan, wouldn't she be the second educator astronaut? Ot did not Christa McAuliffe get that designation?
3 posted on 07/10/2007 6:33:44 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
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To: NonValueAdded
I think that what they're saying is that Christa McAuliffe was under the "Teacher in Space" program, but that Barbara Morgan is the first one under the new "Educator Astronaut" program, with several others to follow her...

While Morgan is NASA's first to launch under the title educator astronaut, she is not the only professional teacher to join the agency's spaceflyer ranks. Educator astronauts Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, Richard Arnold and Joseph Acaba, all trained schoolteachers selected in 2004, have completed their astronaut training and are currently awaiting their own spaceflight assignments.

5 posted on 07/11/2007 7:41:51 PM PDT by mwyounce
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