Kate Rubins will go where no Napan has gone before – 268 miles above the Earth. The biochemist-turned-astronaut, who joined the NASA ranks in 2009, has been chosen for a mission to the International Space Station set to begin in May 2016. On Monday, the U.S. space agency formally announced the mission, which had begun to emerge in news reports last year.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft will boost Rubins, the Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, and Takuya Onishi of Japan from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the remote steppes of Kazakhstan, to the space station, where Rubins will oversee more than 100 scientific experiments during her six months in microgravity.
via Napa astronaut’s journey leads to International Space Station, Napa Valley Register.
Also here is another good article covering this in the Science Recorder, Napa Valley astronaut to visit International Space Station.
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