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Astronaut Megana Mcarthur looks through the top window on the “Space Shuttle Atlantis” flight deck as a mission that 2009 Reviewed the Habble Space Space telescope. | Credit: NASA / Getty Images
Astronaut Megana Mcarthur withdrew from NASA, who has completed a space agency for more than two decades.
McArthur has launched two space lights, registered in orbit 213 days in almost 25 years and took the leadership position in NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. 2009 She rose to her first mission, Space Shuttle Atlantis Atlantis at the Sts-125 mission-last service flight to the Habble Space Telescope. Later, she became the first woman to pilot the SpaceX crew Dragon spacecraft. She took her to the International Space Station (ISS) for her first and only long -term mission.
Both tasks have strengthened the location of McArthur in NASA’s history as the last astronaut, physically linked to the Habbu, and one of the first to direct the space agency to the commercial space flight era.
Mcarthur was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and often moved around the country with his family as a “Navy child”, according to NASA’s report. She studied aviation and space engineering in UCLA (California University, Los Angeles), before obtaining a PhD in oceanography from UC San Diego Scripps institution. At that time she was elected in 2000. As a member of the latest class of astronauts.
She is married to NASA Astronaut Bob Behnken, who has been trying Crew Dragon about the first SpaceX team’s Demo-2 flight. 2020 Mcarthur launched on the same spacecraft less than a year later, when its crew rotation was built by ISS.
This mission, Crew-2, launched in 2021. April And was the second SpaceX operational mission to the Orbital Lab. McArthur and three crew friends spent six months on board where she worked as an Expeditions 65/66 airline. In orbit, she supported research on the research of station care and human physiology, robotics and materials.
2009 In May, Mcarthur was flying Atlantis to Atlantis as part of the last NASA flight to make repairs and updates to Habbul. During the two-week SSS-125 mission, Mcarthur ruled the shooting range of a robotic hand to grab a space telescope, while her crew’s friends worked at the Observatory in five space trails.
Hablas have been approaching his second decade in space over the STS-125. As a result of this service mission, the iconic observatory provided an unprecedented space and discovery images over 15 years after Mcarthur’s mission continues to operate today. NASA credits Mcarthur as the last person who “touches” the observatory after the release of Habber from the Atlantis at the end of the Sts-125 mission, adds NASA’s statement.
“Her contribution has helped to shape the future of human space exploration, and we are extremely grateful for her service,” said JSC director Steve Koerner.
Between her two space flights, Mcarthur joined the NASA leadership ranks in the center of Johnson Space in Houston. 2017 She took up her duties as an assistant director of Air Air Operations; He became Deputy Chief of the Bureau of the Astronaut Bureau, where he supported the training and development of astronauts.
2022 Mcarthur has joined the JSC public visitors, Houston Space Center as a senior scientific, where it works to promote space light and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) topics for students and families attending the center. She will continue this role after NASA’s withdrawal.
“It was an incredible privilege to serve as a NASA astronaut working with scientists around the world for the most advanced research, which continues to have a long-term impact on Earth and is preparing for humanity to explore the moon and Mars in the future,” Mcarthur said in a statement. “When we see our beautiful planet from space, it turns out how fragile and expensive our home is and how vital it is to protect it. I am grateful that I had the opportunity to contribute to this work, and I am happy to observe our great engineers and scientists NASA in conquering new challenges and further scientific discovery.”