Meet Kellie Gerardi: mum, researcher, astronaut and author, who became the 90th woman in history to fly to space. Oh, and she’s also a TikTok star. Last November, Gerardi joined a Virgin Galactic crew for her first flight to space as a payload specialist.
She conducted healthcare research funded by the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS) – and became one of the world’s first industry-sponsored researchers to fly on a commercial spacecraft. According to Virgin Galactic’s website, she has made it her mission to “use space as a laboratory to benefit humanity”. {"@context":"https://schema.
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