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Teacher In Space Highlights O’Keefe NASA Vision Speech Space News, April 15, 2002, page 3 A highly touted policy speech by NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe disclosed plans to send teachers to space, but con-veyed no dramatic change in the direction of the U.S. space agency. NASAs plans to send astronaut-in-train-ing Barbara Morgan, a former elementary school teacher, to the international space station no sooner than 2004 was the highlight of O'Keefe's April 12 speech at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York. NASAs public affairs operation billed O'Keefe's speech as a major address,...