{"id":560,"date":"2002-12-12T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2002-12-12T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=560"},"modified":"2002-12-12T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2002-12-12T22:01:14","slug":"teacher-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Teacher in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a> has<br \/>\n<a title=\"Press Release #H02-250\" href=\"http:\/\/spaceflight.nasa.gov\/spacenews\/releases\/2002\/H02-250.html\">announced<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/morgan.htm\">Barbara Morgan<\/a> has been selected for the first flight of a new Educator Astronaut program aboard shuttle mission STS-118 to the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflight.nasa.gov\/station\/\">International Space Station<\/a> in November of 2003. Morgan was selected in 1985 as the backup for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/mcauliffe.html\">Christa McAuliffe<\/a> who died in the <a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/sts51l.html\">Challenger accident<\/a>.  If you&#8217;ve ever watched <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflight.nasa.gov\/realdata\/nasatv\/index.html\">NASA TV<\/a> during recent shuttle missions, you&#8217;ve probably seen Barbara acting as a spacecraft communicator, or CAPCOM, in Mission Control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has announced that Barbara Morgan has been selected for the first flight of a new Educator Astronaut program aboard shuttle mission STS-118 to the International Space Station in November of 2003. Morgan was selected in 1985 as the backup for Christa McAuliffe who died in the Challenger accident. If you&#8217;ve ever watched NASA TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}