The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 49 crew members NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016 (Kazakh time). Rubins, Ivanishin, and Onishi are returning after 115 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 48 and 49 crews onboard the International Space Station.
Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls from NASA: Expedition 49 Soyuz Spacecraft Landing
(Image is cropped version of the original at the NASA site)
As to what did Kate Rubins do in space, well, she did the first DNA sequencing ever performed in a space vehicle. She also did several spacewalks around the International Space Station to, you know, round out her reputation as a completely bad-ass super woman. (The Planetary Society: Kate Rubins, NASA's DNA sequencing scientist, returning to Earth)
Perhaps you are young but even the young know the look of a Seriously Determined Female and a highly-exceptional one since she's a fully-qualified medical doctor of cancer biology, a research scientist in genomic sequencing of DNA, and she's willing to do spacewalks as part of the gig.
Wow, lady. When you party we have seriously got to be there.
Ed: is she part of the ongoing Ithaka Super Woman Series?
Well, of course she is. We notice with Super Women they hardly ever hang about telling you they're Super Women because they're too busy doing super things. She's only just arrived back on Earth but there's absolutely no telling what she will do next.
Ed: but it will be Super!
Count on it.
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