I don't think you ever really decide that you want to be an astronaut. I put in an application and hoped for… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
From as young as I can remember, I wanted to be - in order - an astronaut, a geologist, and a biologist. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
There's a world of insights to be gained into human health and disease by understanding how gravity and space radiation influence biology. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
I decided to do graduate studies in virology at Stanford University in California because it had a hospital, which made working on clinical applications… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of California, San Diego, I worked on infectious diseases at the nearby Salk Institute for… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
You absolutely know you're in space when you're doing a spacewalk. That was pretty interesting because you can feel vacuum. It actually changes your… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
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… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
I was the one with a subscription to 'Sky and Telescope' magazine as a kid while my friends were reading 'Tiger Beat.' — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
If you find something that you're excited about and you're interested in, my advice to young women and young men would be do what… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share
