Teacher, IRA member, set to blast off in Endeavour

When Barbara Morgan was a wide-eyed 34-year-old schoolteacher, she watched someone who’d beaten her out for the job race into space. Seconds later, the space shuttle was in pieces. Morgan returned to the classroom and shelved her dreams. But not all the way. Now, nearly 22 years later, at 55, she’s set to strap into Endeavour with six colleagues on Aug. 7 and become, after two decades of grief and frustration, the first teacher in space. Read more about Morgan, a member of the International Reading Association since 1986, at PalmBeachPost.com.