NASA Makes October Space Station Launch Assignment

Mark Carreau June 04, 2020
Astronaut Kate Rubins
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA has assigned veteran astronaut Kate Rubins, a cancer researcher and the first person to sequence DNA in space, to the October launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket on a six-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Rubins, who was selected by NASA for astronaut training in 2009...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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