McCall Idaho Headline News

McCall teacher and astronaut Barbara Morgan will return to McCall next month for a celebration of her flight on the space shuttle in August.

The highlight of Morgan's five-day visit will be a public welcome celebration to begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the McCall-Donnelly

There also will be a public reception starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, at Whitetail Resort. Ticket information on the reception, sponsored by the McCall-Donnelly Education Foundation, will be announced later.

Morgan, who will turn 56 on Nov. 28, will arrive in Boise on Sunday, Dec. 9. Her husband, Clay, and the couple's two children will not accompany her.

On Monday, Dec. 10, an invitational breakfast will be held at the Discovery Center of Idaho followed by a public autograph session in the afternoon and a public address that night.

On Wednesday, Dec. 12, Morgan will visit students and staff at McCall Elementary School, Payette Lakes Middle School, McCall-Donnelly High School and Heartland High School.

On Thursday, Dec. 13, she will visit Donnelly Elementary School, Cascade schools and the private Tamarack Academy at Tamarack Resort.

Students and staff from Boise County schools have been invited to travel to Cascade that day to meet with Morgan.

On Friday December 14, she will meet with Valley School District students. Students from Council have been invited to attend the New Meadows meeting.

Morgan will have Saturday, Dec. 15, for herself before returning to Houston on Sunday. Dec. 16.
Meeting with President Bush set Wednesday Morgan and her six fellow crew members have had a busy schedule of appearances since completing their 13-day mission to the International Space Station on Aug. 21, NASA spokesperson Dana Davis said.

On Wednesday, Morgan and other crew members were scheduled to meet with President Bush at The White House in Washington D.C.

The crew's first appearance after returning to Earth was walking in a parade at Disney World in Florida on Sept. 11.

The following day they traveled to Los Angeles, where the schedule included an appear
ance on "The Ellen Show" and, "the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson."

Other appearances in the weeks that followed included presentations at NASA sites in Alabama and Houston and the Sally Ride Festival in Detroit.

On Nov. 8, the Fresno, Calif.. native was inducted into the California Aviation Hall of Fame in Orange County.

Nest week, the Endeavour crew is scheduled to return to Disney World to speak to students and teachers.

After a break for Thanksgiving, she will speak to the national convention of the American Association of Retired Persons in New York City in early December before heading to Idaho.

She will end the year by attending the Fiesta Bowl college football game in Phoenix, Ariz.. on Jan. 2.

NASA has "a full notebook" of requests for appearances by Morgan, and she is booked as far out as next October, Davis said.

During the August mission, Endeavour's crew successfully added another truss segment, a new gyroscope and external spare-parts platform to the International Space Station.