Top 30 Kathleen Rubins Quotes

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Sequencing DNA on the ISS will enable NASA to see what

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.
Kathleen Rubins
I think it’s reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you’re an astronaut.
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.
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
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.
Kathleen Rubins
When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.
Kathleen Rubins
Most germs aren’t bad. You’re in a microbial environment all the time.
Kathleen Rubins
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.
Kathleen Rubins
Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.
Kathleen Rubins
We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote regions on Earth.
Kathleen Rubins
My lab used to do gene expression and genomics, and we did a lot of sequencing samples from virus outbreaks.
Kathleen Rubins
From as young as I can remember, I wanted to be – in order – an astronaut, a geologist, and a biologist.
Kathleen Rubins
You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.
Kathleen Rubins
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.
Kathleen Rubins
When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.
Kathleen Rubins
Folks should find what really inspires them; they should always pursue what they want to do.
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
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 you’re really interested in and what drives and motivates you.
Kathleen Rubins
I decided to do graduate studies in virology at Stanford University in California because it had a hospital, which made working on clinical applications easier.
Kathleen Rubins
When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.
Kathleen Rubins
I’ve always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.
Kathleen Rubins
We’re pretty interested in microbial communities on-board space stations. It’s a closed-loop system. Our water is recycled; our air is recycled.
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 situations such as military deployments. In my case, I worked in the Congo and in Biosafety Level 4 labs on smallpox.
Kathleen Rubins
I think young folks have a good sense of what they want to do.
Kathleen Rubins
I kind of watch anything on the Syfy channel.
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
The planet is beautiful.
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 little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, ‘Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.’
Kathleen Rubins
NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.
Kathleen Rubins
Young people can accomplish a lot.
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