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Space Forum / Shuttle / June 2006Is Barbara Morgan still intetested in the shuttle?
Is Barbara Morgan still scheduled for a flight, and is she even interested? The shuttle is on the road towards ending it's mission objectives, and with only three operation birds left, I'm betting education will get pushed way back again. What is our TIS candidate's status with regard to a mission (even one of those three days in space before return jobs? Maybe I've missed her resignation? If not, you would have to give the lady credit for hanging in there. > Is Barbara Morgan still scheduled for a flight, Yes, STS-118, currently scheduled for next June. > and is she even interested? Yes, very much so. She's been waiting and working hard over twenty years for this. > The shuttle is on the road towards ending it's mission > objectives, and with only three operation birds left, I'm betting > education will get pushed way back again. That may affect the three Educator Mission Specialists selected in the 2004 astronaut class, but not Morgan, since she was previously assigned. > What is our TIS candidate's > status with regard to a mission She is not a "Teacher in Space" candidate. Since 1998, she has been a full- time NASA astronaut. > (even one of those three days in space > before return jobs? There will be no shuttle missions like that. They're all either ISS assembly flights or the one HST servicing mission. They will all be at least ten days in length and *everybody* works. > Maybe I've missed her resignation? Her NASA bio is up-to-date: <http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/morgan.html>  SignatureJRF Reply-to address spam-proofed - to reply by E-mail, check "Organization" (I am not assimilated) and think one step ahead of IBM. I met Barbara, nice lady. But the plans for all these flights before 2010 is a pipe dream. I seriously doubt she will ever fly on the shuttle. >> Is Barbara Morgan still scheduled for a flight, > > Yes, STS-118, currently scheduled for next June. Yes, cheers go out from the Barbara Morgan fan club. >> and is she even interested? > > Yes, very much so. She's been waiting and working hard over twenty years > for this. I wonder if she will become NASA's longest waiting astronaut from selection (on STS-51L) to first flight (on STS-118). I know she didn't actually join NASA for the STS-51L flight, but she was selected, trained and served as the backup astronaut to Christa McAuliffe. >> The shuttle is on the road towards ending it's mission objectives, and >> with only three operation birds left, I'm betting education will get >> pushed way back again. > > That may affect the three Educator Mission Specialists selected in the > 2004 astronaut class, but not Morgan, since she was previously assigned. I would hope not, teaching a semester from space is just as important as any of the science experiments done on the space station. I'm sure NASA could find other duties for the Educator in space to make their time at the space station worth while. Example, housekeeping, cleaning, sorting thru all the bags of stuff to find all the misplace or mislabled items. > Her NASA bio is up-to-date: > > <http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/morgan.html> SignatureCraig Fink Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @ WeBeGood@GMail.Com |
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