Teacher-Astronaut Ready for Liftoff
Competitors for her spot will be on hand in show of support.
Cape Canaveral, Fla.
More than half of the teachers who competed with Christa McAuliffe to fly in the doomed space shuttle Challenger two decades ago were to watch Wednesday as Endeavour lifted off with NASA's first educator-astronaut aboard.
Former schoolteacher Barbara Morgan, who was McAuliffe's backup, will be seated on the lower deck in the middle, exactly where McAuliffe sat 21 years ago. ( "Teacher-Astronaut Out to Lift Academic Sights of Students," July 16, 2007.)
"I think the great thing about it is that people will be thinking about Challenger and thinking about all the hard work lots of folks over many years have done to continue their mission,"...
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