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A SpaceX astronaut family: Megan McArthur is about to pilot the spaceship her husband, Bob Behnken, flew last year – Business Insider Australia
Both partners in the astronaut couple are part of the SpaceX missions for NASA. But it’s getting difficult for their son Theo, McArthur said.
Last spring, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Megan McArthur took their son to see SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launch cargo to the International Space Station. They wanted him to feel the rumble of the rocket’s engines, hear its roar, and follow it out of view – before either of them were on board.
“He could watch a big rocket launch with both mom and dad there, and we could talk to him about it,” McArthur recently told reporters in a call.
Soon thereafter, Theo, who was 6 years old at the time, waved…
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