From MyNewsLA: Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched another group of astronauts into orbit early Friday morning en route to the International Space Station — becoming the first launch involving a previously used spacecraft and rocket.
...Flying on the mission launched Friday are NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet. McArthur, who grew up in Northern California, is a UCLA graduate in aerospace engineering, and she earned a doctorate in oceanography at UC San Diego, where she was a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
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