Kathleen Rubins
| Kathleen Rubins | |
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Active |
| Born |
October 14, 1978 Farmington, Connecticut, U.S. |
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Other occupation
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Microbiologist |
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Time in space
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115d 02h 22m |
| Selection | 2009 NASA Group 20 |
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Total EVAs
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2 |
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Total EVA time
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12 hours 46 minutes |
| Missions | Soyuz MS-01 (Expedition 48) |
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Mission insignia
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Kathleen Hallisey "Kate" Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is a NASA astronaut. She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on July 6, 2016. She returned to Earth on October 30, 2016 aboard a Soyuz. She was a crew member of Expedition 48 and Expedition 49 of the International Space Station.
Rubins was born in Farmington, Connecticut and raised in Napa, California, graduating from Vintage High School. Her father, Jim, still resides in Napa. Her mother, Ann Hallisey, lives in Davis, California. Rubins is married to Michael Magnani.
She received a Bachelor of Science degree in molecular biology from the University of California, San Diego and a Ph.D. degree in cancer biology from Stanford University Medical School Biochemistry Department and Microbiology and Immunology Department. She was a member of the Kappa Lambda chapter of the Chi Omega sorority while attending UC San Diego.
Rubins' mother is Ann Hallisey who resides in Davis, California. Her grandfather was William Bernard Hallisey of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Her great-grandfather was Patrick Hallisey, born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland.
Rubins conducted her undergraduate research on HIV-1 integration in the Infectious Diseases Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. She analyzed the mechanism of HIV integration, including several studies of HIV-1 Integrase inhibitors and genome-wide analyses of HIV integration patterns into host genomic DNA. She obtained her Ph.D. from Stanford University and, with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rubins and colleagues developed the first model of smallpox infection. She also developed a complete map of the poxvirus transcriptome and studied virus-host interactions using both in-vitro and animal model systems.
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