# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/megan-mcarthur
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:20:12.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/megan-mcarthur"
name: "Megan McArthur"
slug: "megan-mcarthur"
description: "Katherine Megan McArthur is an American oceanographer, engineer, and former NASA astronaut. She has served as a Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) for both the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS). Megan McArthur has flown one Space Shuttle mission, STS-125, and one SpaceX mission, SpaceX Crew-2 on Crew Dragon Endeavour. She is known as the last person to be hands on with the Hubble Space Telescope via the Canadarm. McArthur has served in a number of positions including working in the Shuttle Avionics Laboratory (SAIL). She is married to fellow astronaut Bob Behnken."
tagline: "NASA astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Megan_McArthur%2C_official_portrait_(2020)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1971-08-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.58549733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Astro_Megan"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/astro.megan/"
    handle:    "astro.megan"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump