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- NASA has chosen astronaut Megan McArthur to pilot SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship to the International Space Station next spring.
- McArthur's husband, Bob Behnken, returned to Earth in the spaceship on Sunday.
- Behnken's mission has shown that the Crew Dragon can successfully ferry astronauts to and from the space station, thereby restoring NASA's human spaceflight program.
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NASA astronaut Megan McArthur watched her husband climb back onto SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship from the space station, buckle into his seat, and rocket through Earth's atmosphere this weekend. Bob Behnken and his crewmate, Doug Hurley, returned safely on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico in a successful culmination of SpaceX's Demo-2 mission.
Come spring, McArthur is slated to pilot the same spaceship. NASA chose her for the Crew Dragon's second mission in a series of at least six round-trips to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
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