NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur

Megan McArthur was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2000. She most recently served as a flight engineer onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 65 and 66.

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In 2009, McArthur served as a Mission Specialist for STS-125 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis for the final mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The successful 13-day mission improved the telescope’s capabilities and extended its life – it is still in operation today.

In 2021, McArthur spent 200 days in space conducting scientific research and technology demonstrations aboard the International Space Station. She also served as Crew-2 pilot aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour which carried the crew to and from the ISS.

McArthur holds a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of California, San Diego where she performed research activities at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

(12 November 2008) Portrait of Astronaut Megan McArthur (in blue flight suit) taken in Bldg. 5 Motion Based Simulator. (Credit: NASA)

(3 March 2021) SpaceX Crew-2 Launch Simulation. Location: SpaceX headquarters, Rocket Road, (Credit: SpaceX)

(24 May 2021) NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Megan McArthur works in the Microgravity Science Glovebox swapping samples for an experiment called Solidification Using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules, or SUBSA. The physics investigation explores experimental methods of crystallizing melts in microgravity and is expected to result in reduced fluid motion in the melt, leading to better distribution of subcomponents and the potential for improved technology used in producing semiconductor crystals. (Credit: NASA)

(21 October 2021) NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Megan McArthur is pictured inside the cupola as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above Alaska’s Aleutian Islands in between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

(10 September 2021) NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Megan McArthur cleans up debris in the International Space Station’s Plant Habitat, which is growing Hatch Green chiles for the Plant Habitat-04 space crop experiment.

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NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, pilot for the SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station, is seated inside a mockup of the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle during a training session at the SpaceX training facility in Hawthorne,

(7 January 2021) NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, pilot for the SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station, is seated inside a mockup of the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle during a training session at the SpaceX training facility in Hawthorne, California. (Credit: SpaceX)