38 Quotes by Kathleen Rubins

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

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

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.

I kind of watch anything on the Syfy channel.

I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut.

My lab used to do gene expression and genomics, and we did a lot of sequencing samples from virus outbreaks.

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

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.

As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of California, San Diego, I worked on infectious diseases at the nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies.