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Kate Rubins

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Kate Rubins is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut who became the first person to sequence DNA in space, using a portable sequencing device during her first long-duration mission to the International Space Station in 2016, a demonstration with implications for detecting illness and studying biology during future deep-space missions. She flew a second long-duration mission in 2020 to 2021 and performed multiple spacewalks across her two flights.

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Birth Year
1978 1
Nationality
American 1
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1. Wikipedia: Kathleen Rubins
  • Infobox, birth_date
    1978-10-14
  • Introduction
    is an American microbiologist
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Kathleen Rubins (Q3194085, Wikidata)
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