🚀 The FUTURE of SPACE (FoS) video podcast, hosted by Daniel Fox, is a candid and informal conversation between Fox and leaders, investors, innovators, educators, celebrities, movers and shakers, who are shaping the future of humankind into outer space and here on Earth. 🚀
Our guest today is Dr. Kate Rubin. Dr. Rubin is a former NASA astronaut, scientist, Professor of Computational and Systems Biology, and Founding Director of the Trivedi Institute for Space and Global Biomedicine, She was the first person to sequence DNA in space. Selected as a NASA astronaut in 2009, she has led the development of spaceflight hardware and techniques for studying molecular and cellular biology in microgravity and contributed to the design and testing of NASA’s next-generation lunar spacesuits. She has completed two long-duration missions, four spacewalks, and spent 300 days aboard the International Space Station. Her current work bridges space exploration and global health, with a focus on genomics, synthetic biology, and biomedical innovation.