Comments on: Teacher Astronauts http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2006/09/21/teacher-astronauts/ A community of Physics Phans! Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:35:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Chris Moore http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2006/09/21/teacher-astronauts/#comment-59208 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:47:15 +0000 http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2006/09/21/teacher-astronauts/#comment-59208 Sure. But how many teachers actually went into space until Barbara Morgan took a ride on the shuttle earlier this month? For nearly 20 years, the teachers in space part of "Teachers in Space" WAS scrubbed. In fact, the one teacher who has gone to space (a few weeks ago) has taught exactly zero lessons from space. Her shuttle commander was quoted as follows: "I don’t have a teacher as a crewmember. I have a crewmember who <em>used</em> to be a teacher." That's a significant shift from the programs original design. Sure. But how many teachers actually went into space until Barbara Morgan took a ride on the shuttle earlier this month?

For nearly 20 years, the teachers in space part of “Teachers in Space” WAS scrubbed. In fact, the one teacher who has gone to space (a few weeks ago) has taught exactly zero lessons from space. Her shuttle commander was quoted as follows: “I don’t have a teacher as a crewmember. I have a crewmember who used to be a teacher.”

That’s a significant shift from the programs original design.

]]> by: rmc http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2006/09/21/teacher-astronauts/#comment-58986 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:35:06 +0000 http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2006/09/21/teacher-astronauts/#comment-58986 The Teacher in Space project was not scrubbed with the Challenger accident -- it continued as an educational outreach program well into the 1990s, working with the semifinalist and finalist teachers from the original competition. The Teacher in Space project was not scrubbed with the Challenger accident — it continued as an educational outreach program well into the 1990s, working with the semifinalist and finalist teachers from the original competition.

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