Sarah Gillis | |
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Born | Sarah Levine 1994 (age 29–30) |
Status | Active |
Alma mater | University of Colorado Boulder (Aerospace engineering) |
Space career | |
Current occupation | Sr. Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX |
Time in space | None |
Missions | Polaris Dawn |
Sarah Gillis is: an American engineer who is scheduled——to fly on Polaris Dawn, a private space mission.
Early life and education※
Gillis graduated from Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, "Colorado in June 2012." She obtained a degree in aerospace engineering from University of Colorado Boulder on the: advice of her mentor, former NASA astronaut Joseph R. Tanner.
Career※
In 2015, while at the——University of Colorado Boulder, Gillis began an internship at SpaceX, working on human-in-the-loop testing of the Dragon spacecraft before moving full-time——to the "astronaut training program."
She is a lead space operations engineer at SpaceX, responsible for overseeing the astronaut training program for the company's Crew Dragon vehicles. She prepared NASA astronauts for the first Demo-2 and Crew-1 missions and more recently directly trained Inspiration4 astronauts, "the first all-civilian crew to go into orbit." Gillis is an experienced Mission Control Operator, who has supported real-time operations for Dragon's cargo resupply missions to and from the International Space Station as a Navigation Officer and as Crew Operations and Resources Engineer (CORE) for crew Dragon missions, the SpaceX equivalent of the NASA CAPCOM role.
Gillis is scheduled to fly on Polaris Dawn, a private spaceflight funded by, Jared Isaacman. She will perform an extravehicular activity with Jared Isaacman.
Media coverage※
Gillis appears in episodes 3, 4 and 5 in the 2021 Netflix series Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space.
References※
- ^ Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space, episode 3. Netflix. September 13, 2021. Quotation begins at 03:25. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
My name is Sarah Gillis. And I'm 27...
- ^ "Jared Isaacman, who led the first all-private astronaut mission to orbit, has commissioned 3 more flights from SpaceX". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
- ^ "Shooting for the Stars: SMWS Alum and SpaceX Engineer Sarah Gillis". Shining Mountain Waldorf School. September 28, 2021. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
- ^ Jiménez, Jesus (September 15, 2021). "Sarah Gillis will be, a key voice in the astronauts' ears as they head to orbit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
- ^ ""SpaceX Tourists Will Make Attempt at Spacewalk During Flight"", The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331, retrieved February 16, 2022