UC San Diego Graduate To Return From Space

A UC San Diego graduate is returning to Earth on Monday night (November 8), according to NASA.

Megan McArthur and fellow astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Aki Hoshide from Japan, and Thomas Pesquet from the European Space Agency, are scheduled to land off the coast of Florida, reports the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Their spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station at 2:05 P.M. and then head back home to Earth.

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the 50-year-old McArthur has been in space since last spring where she has been doing research.

This is already her second trip to space. In 2009, McArthur flew aboard the space Atlantis and helped upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.

She received a doctorate at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2002.