Idaho Teacher to Train for Space Flight
NASA announcement hailed by educators.
In tapping Idaho schoolteacher Barbara R. Morgan last week to become a full-fledged astronaut, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration opened the space-faring profession to educators to a degree never before seen.
After two years of training, Ms. Morgan will be the first of a new class of NASA mission specialists who have education and teaching backgrounds in science, mathematics, and technology. The agency said it will invite other educators to apply.
"Knowing that this is available provides a new goal, perhaps for many, many young educators," said Wendell Mohling, an associate executive director of the National Science Teachers Association and a semifinalist in the 1980s to be the first teacher in space. "If they're skillful as an educator, those talents and skills will be recognized in many ways,...
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