US shuttle carries first teacher into space

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2007

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States (AFP) — The US space shuttle Endeavour orbited Earth on Thursday, carrying the first teacher in space 21 years after the Challenger explosion ended the dreams of another "educator astronaut."

"Class is in session," a NASA mission control spokesman said after the external fuel tank separated from the shuttle and the Endeavour entered its preliminary orbit less than nine minutes into the flight.

Teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, 55, is the star of the second shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this year, as the space agency NASA seeks to burnish an image tainted by recent stories of drunken and love-crazed astronauts.

Morgan's chance to reach orbit came at last with Endeavour's launch at 6:36 pm (2236...

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