Mar 9, 2024
Houston, we definitely do NOT have a problem…with interviewing
Dr. Kate Rubins, NASA astronaut. Dr. Rubins is a virologist
who has spent over 300 days in space, performing experiments aboard
the International Space Station, where she was the first person to
sequence DNA in space.
We caught up with Dr. Rubins at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in
Houston, where she discusses what it felt like the first time she
saw the earth from space, some of the difficulties in performing
research without gravity, how to study the microbiome of the ISS,
how the international inhabitants of the ISS communicate with each
other, and the spur-of-the-moment event that led to her becoming an
astronaut.
This episode was supported by Cestodium, a new weight-loss
program.*
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