Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Astronaut describes career detour to US health director

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 6, 2016 file photo, U.S. astronaut Kate Rubins speaks during a news conference in the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, she thanked the director of the National Institutes of Health on Tuesday for indirectly getting her to NASA and into orbit. NASA chose Rubins, an infectious disease specialist, in 2009, the same year Dr. Francis Collins took over the NIH after years of leading its National Human Genome Research Institute. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Kate Rubins applied to be an astronaut while she was procrastinating about writing a grant application to the National Institutes of Health.


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