Mcarthur Megan Credit - www.spacefacts.de

Personal: Female. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. PhD

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: NASA Group 18 - 2000. Active Entered space service: 26 July 2000.

OFFICIAL NASA BIOGRAPHY

NAME: K. Megan McArthur, Mission Specialist

BIRTHDATE/PLACE: August 30, 1971 - Honolulu, HI

RESIDENCE WHEN RECRUITED: San Diego, CA

EDUCATION: St. Francis High School, Mountain View, CA, 1989; B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of California-Los Angeles, 1993; Ph.D., Oceanography, University of California-San Diego, 2000 (expected)

POSITION WHEN RECRUITED: Graduate Student Research Assistant Marine Physical Laboratory Scripps Institute of Oceanography La Jolla, CA

27 July 2000 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 18 selected.. The group was selected to provide pilot, engineer, and scientist astronauts for space shuttle flights.. Qualifications: Pilots: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics. Advanced degree desirable. At least 1,000 flight-hours of pilot-in-command time. Flight test experience desirable. Excellent health. Vision minimum 20/50 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20 vision; maximum sitting blood pressure 140/90. Height between 163 and 193 cm.

Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. Seven pilots and ten mission specialists; 14 men and 3 women.

• NASA Astronaut Biographies, Johnson Space Center, NASA, 1995-present. Accessed at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/.