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Who is Megan McArthur, first woman to pilot NASA's SpaceX Dragon?
short by Neeraja Nath / on Tuesday, 2 September, 2025
Former NASA astronaut Megan McArthur is the first woman to pilot a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the last to operate Hubble Space Telescope with the space shuttle's robotic arm. She logged 213 days in space and her first spaceflight was STS-125 in 2009, aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. In 2022, McArthur became the Chief Science Officer at Space Center Houston.
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