Anne McClain
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Anne Charlotte McClain is a Colonel in the U.S. Army, engineer and a NASA astronaut. Her call sign, "Annimal", dates back to her bruising rugby days; she also uses the call sign in her Twitter handle, AstroAnnimal. She was a Flight Engineer for Expedition 58/59 to the International Space Station.
Anne McClain
McClain in Army Service Uniform in 2018
McClain inside the vestibule between the Harmony and Destiny modules, wearing a sensor on her forehead collecting data on how the circadian rhythm is affected by long spaceflight
McClain takes a selfie during her first spacewalk, Expedition 59 EVA 1, on March 22, 2019.
Expedition 59
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Expedition 59 was the 59th Expedition to the International Space Station. It started with the arrival of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft carrying Aleksey Ovchinin, Nick Hague and Christina Koch, joining Oleg Kononenko, David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain who transferred from Expedition 58. The expedition formally began on March 15, 2019. Ovchinin and Hague were originally meant to fly to the ISS aboard Soyuz MS-10, but returned to Earth minutes after takeoff due to a contingency abort. The expedition formally ended with the undocking of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft carrying Kononenko, Saint-Jacques and McClain on 24 June 2019; Ovchinin, Hague and Koch transferred to Expedition 60.
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(l-r) Saint-Jacques, McClain, Kononenko, Ovchinin, Hague and KochISS expeditions← Expedition 58Expedition 60 →