Astronaut Quote by 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 the best.”

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There's a world of insights to be gained into human health and disease by understanding how gravity and space radiation influence biology.

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I kind of watch anything on the Syfy channel.

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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…

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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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…

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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…

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

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