Science, Space

NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins, Crewmates Safely Return From the Space Station

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins after Soyuz landing

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins after Soyuz landing.  Credits: NASA TV
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2016. NASA astronaut and Expedition 49 crew member Kate Rubins, who became the first person to sequence DNA in space, returned to Earth Saturday after a successful mission aboard the International Space Station.Rubins and her crewmates Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, touched down in their Soyuz MS-01 at 11:58…

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