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Aug 5, 2007

"No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been." --Adelaide Anne Procter

Teaching From Outer Space

It's a lesson that’s been taught for generations: All good things are worth the wait. Now, that lesson - one of many - is about to be delivered from 140 miles above Earth. "I want to go on the space shuttle," wrote schoolteacher Barbara Morgan to NASA in 1985,"I want to get some stardust on me." At age 55, after 22 years of training and waiting, in the wake of two shuttle catastrophes, Morgan is finally poised to conduct her lesson plans from space. Liftoff of Morgan and six other astronauts aboard shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for Aug. 7 from the Kennedy Space Center. The mission will be closely followed by millions of wide-eyed children - and their teachers, who know a thing or two about patience.