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Josh Dinner

Astronaut Megan McArthur, 1st woman to pilot SpaceX Dragon, retires after 25-year NASA career

A woman wearing a headset and a green long sleeve shirt looks out of the windows on the International Space Station aimed at Earth.

Astronaut Megan McArthur has retired from NASA, ending more than two decades with the space agency.

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. She lifted off on her first mission in 2009, aboard space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-125 mission — the final servicing flight to the Hubble Space Telescope. She later became the first woman to pilot SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, which ferried her to the International Space Station (ISS) for her first and only long-duration mission, in 2021.

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