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UC San Diego graduate Megan McArthur will pilot NASA’s new Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on Friday during her second trip into orbit.
The spacecraft is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:49 a.m. EDT. The launch will be broadcast at NASA.gov.
McArthur will be accompanied by mission commander Shane Kimbrough and astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency.
She is scheduled to guide the spacecraft to a docking with space station at 5:10 a.m. on Saturday, as part of a crew rotation at the orbiting out post. McArthur will then spend six months as part of the station’s crew.
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NASA astronaut and UCSD alum Megan McArthur.
When the SpaceX Dragon launches to the International Space Station this week for its second operational crew mission, an astronaut with ties to San Diego will be at the helm of the spacecraft.
NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, a UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna, will pilot the Dragon during the SpaceX Crew-2 mission alongside NASA commander Shane Kimbrough, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet.
The flight will mark another achievement in commercialized space travel: the first time a flight carrying humans will have a reused rocket, Falcon 9, and a reused spacecraft, the Crew Dragon named Endeavour.