Kathleen Rubins

NASA astronaut selected in July 2009

Kathleen Rubins is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.

The record lists Kathleen Rubins as NASA astronaut selected in July 2009.

Kathleen Rubins was born at Farmington in 1978. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at Stanford University and Vintage High School.

Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.

She worked as astronaut and biologist.

Her affiliations include National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.

Her recorded fields of work are molecular biology.

Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.

Kathleen Rubins is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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