Kathleen Rubins

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

I kind of watch anything on the Syfy channel.

— Kathleen Rubins

When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and…

— Kathleen Rubins

NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.

— Kathleen Rubins

We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the…

— Kathleen Rubins

When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a…

— Kathleen Rubins

I decided to do graduate studies in virology at Stanford University in California because it had a hospital, which made working on…

— Kathleen Rubins

As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of California, San Diego, I worked on infectious diseases at the nearby Salk…

— Kathleen Rubins

When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.

— Kathleen Rubins

You absolutely know you're in space when you're doing a spacewalk. That was pretty interesting because you can feel vacuum. It actually…

— Kathleen Rubins

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…

— Kathleen Rubins

I was the one with a subscription to 'Sky and Telescope' magazine as a kid while my friends were reading 'Tiger Beat.'

— Kathleen Rubins

Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.

— Kathleen Rubins

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

— Kathleen Rubins

If you find something that you're excited about and you're interested in, my advice to young women and young men would be…

— Kathleen Rubins

I'm involved with health care/medical supply delivery to Africa and started a non-profit organization to bring supplies to Congo.

— Kathleen Rubins

I thought that NASA didn't take biologists and so nothing would come of it. But I knew I would regret it if…

— Kathleen Rubins

Sequencing DNA on the ISS will enable NASA to see what happens to genetic material in space in real time, rather than…

— Kathleen Rubins

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

When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.

— Kathleen Rubins

It changes your perspective to be able to look out the window and see the planet. One of the thoughts that I…

— Kathleen Rubins

Young people can accomplish a lot.

— Kathleen Rubins

Spaceflight is a tricky business. It is definitely difficult, and I think we forget that sometime.

— Kathleen Rubins

You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.

— Kathleen Rubins

The planet is beautiful.

— Kathleen Rubins