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16 Facts About Megan McArthur

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Megan McArthur's has served as a Capsule Communicator for both the Space Shuttle and International Space Station .

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Megan McArthur has flown one space shuttle mission, STS-125 and one SpaceX mission, SpaceX Crew-2 on Crew Dragon Endeavour.

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Megan McArthur's is known as the last person to be hands on with the Hubble Space Telescope via the Canadarm.

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Megan McArthur has served in a number of positions including working in the Shuttle Avionics Laboratory .

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Megan McArthur was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but grew up in California.

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At the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Megan McArthur conducted graduate research in nearshore underwater acoustic propagation and digital signal processing.

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Megan McArthur's served as chief scientist during at-sea data collection operations and has planned and led diving operations during sea-floor instrument deployments and sediment-sample collections.

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Megan McArthur then served as the Crew Support Astronaut for the Expedition 9 crew during their six-month mission aboard the International Space Station .

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Megan McArthur's worked in the Space Station and Space Shuttle Mission Control Centers as a Capsule Communicator .

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In 2009, Megan McArthur was a member of the STS-125 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Megan McArthur was the ascent and entry flight engineer and was the lead robotics crew member for the mission.

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In 2019, Megan McArthur was appointed Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office.

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In July 2020, NASA announced that Megan McArthur would fly into space for the second time on SpaceX Crew-2, along with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

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Megan McArthur's used the same seat inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour which her husband, Bob Behnken used in SpaceX Demo-2, the first mission of the Endeavour capsule.

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Megan McArthur is married to fellow astronaut Bob Behnken, and they have one son named Theodore "Theo" Behnken.

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Megan McArthur's appeared as an animated version of herself in season 4 of Blaze and the Monster Machines.

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