Barbara Morgan

Barbara taught indoors and outdoors at public schools for 24 years, and trained with the crew of the space shuttle Challenger as a backup to Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe. She served as a NASA Astronaut for 10 years and flew on a construction mission to the International Space Station, before retiring to become Boise State University’s Distinguished Educator in Residence (now emeritus). Barbara’s experiences in education and viewing the Earth from orbit strengthened her belief that policy makers and the public need meaningful access to evidence observed and gathered from space in order to protect our environment.