Astronaut Megan McArthur is Onboard The Shuttle Atlantis
Posted by Ted McElwee, Mon May 11 12:18:00 UTC 2009
1533 GMT (11:33 a.m. EDT)
The final Atlantis astronaut has boarded the shuttle today. Megan McArthur, mission specialist No. 2 and flight engineer, has now entered the hatch. She will sit in the flight deck center seat, giving an extra set of eyes to aid the commander and pilot watch displays and switches during launch and landing.
The 37-year-old oceanographer from California is a space rookie. She will operate the shuttle's robotic arm to capture Hubble, move the spacewalkers around during the EVAs and then redeploy the upgraded the telescope.
Read her biography here.
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