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Kellie Gerardi (born February 16, 1989) is an American social media influencer, popular science communicator, and citizen astronaut who is known for a sub-orbital spaceflight with Virgin Galactic as a payload specialist in 2023. She has worked at Palantir Technologies since 2015, where she is a lead on the company's mission operations team.
JUPITER — Kellie Gerardi is preparing to launch into space in 2026, and it won’t be the first time the 35-year-old bioastronautics researcher, Jupiter native and mom takes the trek.. Her first ...
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Kellie Gerardi conducted three experiments in fluid dynamics and biomedical research while on board the VSS Unity spaceplane, reaching a peak altitude of 87.2km. Sharing footage from space and ...
Fate. Retired 8 June 2024. VSS Unity (Virgin Space Ship Unity, registration: N202VG), previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a retired SpaceShipTwo -class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It was the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and was part of the Virgin Galactic fleet. It first reached space as defined by the United States ...
She returned to space for her second long duration mission on 15 November 2020, onboard SpaceX Crew-1, the first operational flight of SpaceX 's Crew Dragon spacecraft. Soyuz TMA-19 (Jun. 15, 2010) SpaceX Crew-1 (Nov. 15, 2020) 56. Liu Yang. Oct. 6, 1978. China. First Chinese woman in space.
A mother shares how being an astronaut is helping her inspire women everywhere, and her young daughter, to believe there is no limit to their goals.
Soviet Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, launched in 1963 aboard the Soviet Vostok 6. The first woman to fly in space was Valentina Tereshkova, a textile factory worker who was an avid amateur parachutist, as parachuting was necessary for the Earth landing which was made outside the reentry capsule. [18]