NASA Endeavour lifts off, sending first teacher into space

August 09, 2007

NASA's space shuttle Endeavour has blasted off late on Wednesday sending the first teacher into space 21 years after the Challenger explosion tragically ended the dream of another pioneering teacher. Teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, 55, has become the star of the second shuttle mission to the International Space Station this year, which has otherwise been marked by embarrassing stories of drunken and love-crazed astronauts. Images of the lift-off.