When I started working at NASA and understanding what the capabilities really were of the space station and the space program, one of the biggest draws for me was the ability to do experiments in space. We can do a… — 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 Image
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 Image
NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
