Kate Rubins, NASA Astronaut (IMAGE)

NASA/Johnson Space Center

Kate Rubins, NASA Astronaut

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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins not only became the first person to sequence DNA in space, but the sequenced more than a billion bases during her time aboard the space station.

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