UC San Diego Astronaut Megan McArthur (extended interview)

Megan McArthur, Astronaut and UC San Diego graduate who served on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, discusses the experience of becoming an astronaut. [Science] [Show ID: 18130]

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Education

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• Megan McArthur
• astronaut
• UC San Diego
• Hubble Space Telescope

[VideoGameCoupons]

you are really great

[ryderwayland]

@EndeavourLaunch megan is so hot.

[ryderwayland]

@tamakiharuhi007 megan is so hot.

[ryderwayland]

megan is so hot.

[tamakiharuhi007]

I am a woman and I want to become an astronaut, and I hope that I become as intelligent and wise as this woman

[EndeavourLaunch]

@tom500k nor would the technology have been possible without the manned space program of Apollo..

[tom500k]

Listen children, I taught seminars on advanced computer technology at Johnson Space Center. If we want to protect earth from catastrophic collisions, we need to put money in APT technology rather than squandering it on infantile bullshit like "manned" space flight by photogenic shills for the space industry. Can you comprehend any of this? News flash: cell phones do not require human telephone operators in space, nor does space exploration, etc.

[DukeNukemIsHere3]

@tom500k

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Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.

[DukeNukemIsHere3]

@tom500k Are you serious?

If not for the obvious technological advances that experiments in space offer (your cell phone for example), if not for the advances in medicine, if not for the cooperation of many nations, to take on this final frontier not as individual countries but as mankind, THEN FOR THE MOST PRACTICAL REASON OF ALL:

Survival.

[TyrannosaurusReks]

Great interview, thank you for uploading this.