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Barbara Morgan, the Glossary

Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut.^[1]

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Adler Planetarium

The Adler Planetarium is a public museum in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to astronomy and astrophysics.

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Administrator of NASA

The administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the highest-ranking official of NASA, the national space agency of the United States.

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Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.

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Benjamin Alvin Drew Jr. (born November 5, 1962) is a United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. Barbara Morgan and Alvin Drew are NASA civilian astronauts and space Shuttle program astronauts.

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Amateur radio

Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communications.

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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS), operating in the Amateur-satellite service, is a project sponsored by various entities and carried out by astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station who also have an amateur radio license.

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Arlee, Montana

Arlee (Salish: nɫq̓alqʷ, nɫq̓a) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on the Flathead Reservation, Lake County, Montana, United States.

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Astronaut

An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον, meaning 'star', and ναύτης, meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.

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Belmont, California

Belmont is a city in San Mateo County in the U.S. state of California.

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Boise State University

Boise State University (BSU) is a public research university in Boise, Idaho.

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Canadarm

Canadarm or Canadarm1 (officially Shuttle Remote Manipulator System or SRMS, also SSRMS) is a series of robotic arms that were used on the Space Shuttle orbiters to deploy, manoeuvre, and capture payloads.

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Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.

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Challenger (1990 film)

Challenger is a 1990 American disaster drama television film based on the events surrounding the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster in 1986. Barbara Morgan and Challenger (1990 film) are space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

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Challenger Center for Space Science Education

Challenger Center for Space Science Education is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC.

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Challenger: The Final Flight

Challenger: The Final Flight is a 2020 American docuseries developed by Glen Zipper and Steven Leckart for Netflix. Barbara Morgan and Challenger: The Final Flight are space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator and military officer.

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Chase plane

A chase plane is an aircraft that "chases" a "subject" aircraft, spacecraft or rocket, for the purposes of making real-time observations and taking air-to-air photographs and video of the subject vehicle during flight.

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Christa McAuliffe

Sharon Christa McAuliffe (Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist. Barbara Morgan and Christa McAuliffe are American women astronauts, educator astronauts and space Shuttle program astronauts.

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Colegio Americano de Quito

The Fundación Colegio Americano de Quito or Colegio Americano de Quito (American School of Quito) is a private college preparatory school in Quito, Ecuador.

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Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing whereby skiers traverse snow-covered terrain without use of ski lifts or other assistance.

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Dick Scobee

Francis Richard Scobee (May 19, 1939 – January 28, 1986) was an American pilot, engineer, and astronaut. Barbara Morgan and Dick Scobee are space Shuttle program astronauts.

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Educator Astronaut Project

The Educator Astronaut Project is a NASA program to educate students and spur excitement in science, technology, engineering, math, and space exploration. Barbara Morgan and Educator Astronaut Project are educator astronauts.

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Flathead Indian Reservation

The Flathead Indian Reservation, located in western Montana on the Flathead River, is home to the Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai, and Pend d'Oreilles tribes – also known as the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation.

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Flight controller

Flight controllers are personnel who aid space flight by working in such Mission Control Centers as NASA's Mission Control Center or ESA's European Space Operations Centre.

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Florida Today

Florida Today is the major daily newspaper serving Brevard County, Florida.

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Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Fresno, California

Fresno is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States.

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Galileo Galilei

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei or simply Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

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Herbert Hoover High School (Fresno, California)

Herbert Hoover High School is a public secondary school in the Fresno Unified School District serving Fresno, California, United States, in northern Fresno County.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Human biology

Human biology is an interdisciplinary area of academic study that examines humans through the influences and interplay of many diverse fields such as genetics, evolution, physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, anthropology, ecology, nutrition, population genetics, and sociocultural influences.

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Hurricane Dean

Hurricane Dean was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season.

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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Johnson Space Center

The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas (originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center), where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted.

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Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers.

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McCall, Idaho

McCall is a resort town on the western edge of Valley County, Idaho, United States.

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Michael D. Griffin

Michael Douglas Griffin (born November 1, 1949) is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering from 2018 to 2020. Barbara Morgan and Michael D. Griffin are amateur radio people.

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Mission control center

A mission control center (MCC, sometimes called a flight control center or operations center) is a facility that manages space flights, usually from the point of launch until landing or the end of the mission.

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Mission specialist

Mission specialist (MS) is a term for a specific position held by astronauts who are tasked with conducting a range of scientific, medical, or engineering experiments during a spaceflight mission.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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NASA Astronaut Corps

The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and international space missions.

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NASA Astronaut Group 17

NASA Astronaut Group 17, were chosen by NASA in 1998 and announced on June 4 of that year.

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National Education Association

The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States.

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National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon. Barbara Morgan and Neil Armstrong are NASA civilian astronauts.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Notre Dame de Namur University

Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) is a private Catholic university in Belmont, California.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.

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Quito

Quito (Kitu), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area.

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Space Shuttle Challenger

Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Barbara Morgan and Space Shuttle Challenger are space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

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Space Shuttle Columbia

Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA.

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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board.

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Space Shuttle Endeavour

Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking, (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.

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STS-118

STS-118 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by the orbiter Endeavour.

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STS-51-L

STS-51-L was the disastrous 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle ''Challenger''. Barbara Morgan and STS-51-L are space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

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Teacher

A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.

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Teacher in Space Project

The Teacher in Space Project (TISP) was a NASA program announced by Ronald Reagan in 1984 designed to inspire students, honor teachers, and spur interest in mathematics, science, and space exploration. Barbara Morgan and teacher in Space Project are educator astronauts and space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

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Walt Disney World

The Walt Disney World Resort (also known as Walt Disney World or Disney World) is an entertainment resort complex located about southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States.

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Wishbone (TV series)

Wishbone is an American live-action children's television series that aired from 1995 to 1997 and originally broadcast on PBS.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Morgan

Also known as Barbara R. Morgan, Barbara Radding Morgan, KD5VNP, Morgan, Barbara.

, Notre Dame de Namur University, Palo Alto, California, Quito, Space Shuttle Challenger, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, Space Shuttle Columbia, Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Stanford University, Stephen Hawking, STS-118, STS-51-L, Teacher, Teacher in Space Project, Walt Disney World, Wishbone (TV series).

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See also

Amateur radio women

Boise State University faculty

Educator astronauts

Notre Dame de Namur University alumni

Schoolteachers from Montana

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

References