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).
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McArthur, STS-125 mission specialist, works the controls of the remote manipulator system (RMS) on the aft flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis during flight day eight activities.
McArthur reading Chapter 5, Flute, the Canary, of the children's book Elmer and the Dragon (1950) by Ruth Stiles Gannett on board the International Space Station, 265 miles above the northern Atlantic Ocean in August 2021.
McArthur bids farewell to the media after arriving at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ahead of SpaceX’s Crew-2 missionIn their orbit 1
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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.
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