American - Astronaut | October 14, 1978 -
For long-duration exploration missions, NASA is looking for folks with a lot of operational, hands-on experience, people who have been in field-type situations such as military deployments. In my case, I worked in the Congo and in Biosafety Level 4 labs on smallpox.
Kathleen Rubins
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NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.
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I thought I was prepared for space, and it still absolutely defied every expectation and dream. It is an incredible thing to put yourself on a rocket and launch off the planet. It is an amazing thing to see the planet from space. This blue sphere is almost indescribably beautiful.
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Most germs aren't bad. You're in a microbial environment all the time.
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Sequencing DNA on the ISS will enable NASA to see what happens to genetic material in space in real time, rather than looking at a snapshot of DNA before launch and another snapshot of DNA after launch and filling in the blanks.
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I thought that NASA didn't take biologists and so nothing would come of it. But I knew I would regret it if I did not apply.
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I think young folks have a good sense of what they want to do.
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Folks should find what really inspires them; they should always pursue what they want to do.
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Young people can accomplish a lot.
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They say that in space, nobody can hear you scream. The first time I stepped out of the airlock, I was ready to scream - not because I was scared but because I was so excited to see the Earth below me.
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From as young as I can remember, I wanted to be - in order - an astronaut, a geologist, and a biologist.
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I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.
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