K. Megan McArthur

Katherine Megan McArthur is an American oceanographer and a National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut. She has served as a Capsule Communicator for both the space shuttle and space station. Megan McArthur has flown one space shuttle mission, STS125. She is known as the last person to be hands on with the Hubble Space Telescope . McArthur has served in a number of positions including working in the Shuttle Avionics Laboratory . She is married to fellow astronaut Robert L. Behnken.

McArthur was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but grew up in Northern California. She dreamed of being an astronaut when she was a teenager. She graduated from St. Francis High School in Mountain View, California, then later earned a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA in 1993. In 2002, she was awarded a Ph.D. in oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

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