American - Astronaut | October 14, 1978 -
You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.
Kathleen Rubins
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My lab used to do gene expression and genomics, and we did a lot of sequencing samples from virus outbreaks.
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I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut.
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We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote regions on Earth.
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I kind of watch anything on the Syfy channel.
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We're pretty interested in microbial communities on-board space stations. It's a closed-loop system. Our water is recycled; our air is recycled.
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When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.
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When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.
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As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of California, San Diego, I worked on infectious diseases at the nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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I decided to do graduate studies in virology at Stanford University in California because it had a hospital, which made working on clinical applications easier.
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Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.
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There's actually an incredible amount of parallels between working in central Congo in a remote, isolated village and doing research aboard the space station.
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