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 58 was the 58th expedition to the International Space Station, which began on December 20, 2018 with the departure of the Expedition 57 crew. It was commanded by cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, with astronauts Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques as flight engineers; the trio launched on board Soyuz MS-11 on December 3, 2018, marking the 100th orbital launch of the year.
ISS Expedition 58
(l-r) NASA Astronaut Anne McClain, Roscosmos Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and CSA Astronaut David Saint-Jacques.ISS expeditions← Expedition 57Expedition 59 →