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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Kathleen Hallisey Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist, the inaugural director of the Trivedi Institute for Space and Global Biomedicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and retired NASA astronaut.
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Kathleen Hallisey Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist, the inaugural director of the Trivedi Institute for Space and Global Biomedicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and retired NASA astronaut.
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She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 7, 2016.
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