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.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough, left, and Megan McArthur, right wave farewell, as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A.
ISS-65 Megan McArthur collects microbial samples
NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough are seen on the fixed service structure of Launch Complex 39A before boarding SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket before the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission.
Astronaut Megan McArthur reading Elmer and the Dragon on board the International Space Station
SpaceX Crew-2 Dress Rehearsal.
Megan McArthur
Megan McArthur, Mike Massimino and Andrew Feustel prepares to eat during STS-125
Megan McArthur working the controls of the RMS during STS-125
S125-E-007000 - Megan McArthur working the controls of the RMS during STS-125
Akihiko Hoshide, Anton Shkaplerov, Mark T. Vande Hei, Megan McArthur, Michael S. Hopkins, Oleg Novitskiy, Pyotr Dubrov, Shane Kimbrough, Shannon Walker, Soichi Noguchi, Thomas Pesquet, Victor J. Glover, expedition to the International Space Station,