MORGAN Barbara (MORGAN Barbara R.) /SShA/
1.08.2000 0:00 | A. B. Zheleznyakov/Enciklopediya Kosmonavtika

MORGAN Barbara (MORGAN Barbara R.)



      Kandidat v kosmonavty SShA. Rodilas' 28 noyabrya 1951 goda v gorode Fresno (shtat Kaliforniya, SShA). V 1969 godu zakonchila shkolu Hoover High School v gorode Fresno (shtat Kaliforniya, SShA). V 1973 godu zakonchila Stenfordskii universitet i poluchil stepen' bakalavra po anatomii. Prepodavala v srednei shkole. V 1985 godu byla otobrana NASA dlya kosmicheskogo poleta na bortu korablya mnogorazovogo ispol'zovaniya sistemy "Space Shuttle" po programme "Uchitel' - v kosmose". Byla dublerom drugoi uchitel'nicy Christa McAULIFF, pogibshei pri starte kosmicheskogo korablya "Challenger" v 1986 godu. V posleduyushie gody prodolzhila rabotu v srednei shkole. 5 iyunya 1998 goda zachislena v otryad kosmonavtov NASA (1998 Gruppa NASA # 17).