Among the many new things during the COVID-19 pandemic was the school classroom, or the lack of it. During the height of the pandemic in the past two years, students were often seen attending virtual classrooms from homes with the teachers conducting the classes from their houses.
A group of students in the U.S. experienced something similar 15 years ago. Only that their teacher, Barbara Morgan, wasn’t teaching virtually from the comfort of her home. Morgan was the first teacher to travel into space and she did do some teaching while in space!
Born in November 1951 in Fresno, California, Morgan obtained a B.A. in human biology from Stanford University in 1973. Having received her teaching credentials by the following year, she began her teaching career in 1974 in Arlee, Montana, teaching remedial reading and maths.
