First Teacher In Space

She received her bachelor s degree in education and history from framingham state college in 1970 and her master s degree in education supervision and administration from bowie state university in 1978.

First teacher in space. So she went back to her school. She is barbara morgan. But she kept helping nasa.

Thirty years after the concord high school class of 86 watched social studies teacher christa mcauliffe and six astronauts perish when the space shuttle challenger exploded on. The story of barbara morgan the first teacher in space nation jan 28 2016 6 30 pm edt in 1984 president ronald reagan announced the creation of the teachers in space project a nasa initiative. But then there was the challenger accident.

The challenger crew s spirit of adventure and love of exploration and learning clearly lives on. A high school teacher christa mcauliffe made history when she became the first american civilian selected to go into space in 1985. Sadly christa mcauliffe was not destined to become the first teacher in space.

These were then trained for a time and in 1985 nasa selected christa mcauliffe to be the first teacher in space with barbara morgan as her backup. She planned to teach two 15 minute lessons from the space shuttle. Sharon christa mcauliffe was an american teacher and astronaut from concord new hampshire and one of the seven crew members killed in the space shuttle challenger disaster.

She took a teaching position as a social studies teacher at concord high school in new hampshire in 1983. She has taught second grade third grade and fourth grade. Mcauliffe was a high school social studies teacher from concord new hampshire.

Finally in july of 1985 nasa chose new hampshire teacher christa mcauliffe to be the first teacher in space and idaho teacher barbara morgan as her backup. She was assigned to the crew aboard the space shuttle endeavour. She was picked as the first educator astronaut.