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UCSD Alum to Pilot NASA, SpaceX Crew-2 Launch of Reused Capsule Christina Bravo
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.
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On Tuesday,
a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three charges he was facing in the death of George Floyd.
The judge said Chauvin would be sentenced in eight weeks.
The
other former Minneapolis police officers who responded to the call that ended in Floyd s death face charges of aiding and abetting Chauvin on
two of his charges.
J. Alexander Kueng, are currently scheduled to face trial in August. In January, a judge