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TIL Barbara Morgan was the backup teacher to Christa McAuliffe in the ‘Teacher in Space Project’. She became an astronaut to honour McAuliffe and flew in space 21 years after the doomed Challenger shuttle, finally fulfilling McAuliffe’s mission.

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