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Idaho Aviation Hall of Fame inducts Educator-in-Residence Barbara Morgan
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Boise State University’s Distinguished Educator in Residence Barbara Morgan is one of three exceptional individuals who will be welcomed into the Idaho Aviation Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the Boise Airport at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4. Morgan also is the event’s keynote speaker and will address the audience at 8:30 p.m.
Morgan is a veteran educator who taught at McCall-Donnelly Elementary School for many years before being selected as the alternate for NASA’s Teacher in Space program in 1985. She went on to become a mission specialist on the crew of STS-118, a 2007 shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
The following year Morgan accepted a joint appointment in Boise State’s colleges of Engineering and Education and advises the university in policy development and advocacy for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education while providing educational vision and leadership throughout the state.
Also being inducted are David Hinson and the late Maj. Gen. Robert F. Molinelli. Now retired in Ketchum, Hinson was a pilot, instructor and director of flight standards for multiple airlines in addition to being one of the founders and CEO of Midway Airlines and an FAA Administrator appointed by Bill Clinton in 1993. Molinelli was a Pocatello resident and highly decorated combat pilot during the Vietnam War who served as Army Aviation Officer for the U.S. Department of the Army before his death in 1987.
COURTESY/MCT Barbara Morgan showed her young counterparts a thing or two about making the best of weightlessness in March during a NASA and BSU microgravity experiment at Ellington Field in Houston (left, Dan Isla).
The Idaho Aviation Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991. It has inducted 39 individuals thus far and has displays in the eight major airport terminals in Idaho. Its mission is to preserve the history and document the growth of aviation in Idaho through recognition of aviation pioneers.