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Kate Rubins Prepares for Birthday Ride to Space Station
By Ben Evans, on October 10th, 2020
When NASA’s Kate Rubins launches to the International Space Station (ISS) next Wednesday, she will become only the fifth American astronaut in history to do so on a birthday. Born in Farmington, Conn., on 14 October 1978, Rubins and her Russian crewmates—Soyuz MS-17 Commander Sergei Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Sergei Kud-Sverchkov—will rise from Site 31/6 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, atop a giant Soyuz-2.1a booster, at 11:45 a.m. local time (1:45 a.m. EDT).
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Most recently, on 15 April 2005 John Phillips became the first American to launch on his birthday, atop a rocket built and operated by another nation. His ride to orbit in a Soyuz-FG booster from Baikonur, shoulder-to-shoulder with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori, saw him turn 54 and kick off the six-month-long Expedition 11 to the ISS. When Kate Rubins follows in Phillips’ footsteps on Wednesday, she will become the first woman in history to launch a space mission on her birthday.
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