{"id":40070,"count":1,"description":"<div class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" data-sourcepos=\"1:1-1:226\">Sarah Gillis is an American engineer and astronaut <span class=\"citation-0 citation-end-0\">who is scheduled to fly on Polaris Dawn, a private space mission. If the trip goes ahead as planned in 2023, she will become the youngest American to reach orbit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:498\">Gillis is a Sr. Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX, where she is responsible for supervising the astronaut training program for the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft. This includes developing a mission-specific program and executing the training for NASA and commercial astronauts who fly on the Dragon spacecraft. She prepared the NASA astronauts for the first Demo-2 and Crew-1 missions and more recently directly trained the Inspiration4 astronauts, the first all-civilian crew to go into orbit.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" data-sourcepos=\"5:1-5:326\">Gillis is also a trained <span class=\"citation-1\">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.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" data-sourcepos=\"7:1-7:364\"><span class=\"citation-1 citation-end-1\">Gillis is scheduled to fly on Polaris Dawn, a private spaceflight funded by Jared Isaacman.<\/span> The mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will spend four days in orbit, during which time they will conduct a number of science experiments and raise awareness of climate change.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" data-sourcepos=\"9:1-9:176\">Gillis is a role model for women and girls who are interested in STEM fields and space exploration. She is also a reminder that anything is possible if you set your mind to it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","link":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/trends\/tag\/sarah-gillis\/","name":"Sarah Gillis","slug":"sarah-gillis","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sarah Gillis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/trends\/tag\/sarah-gillis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sarah Gillis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sarah Gillis is an American engineer and astronaut who is scheduled to fly on Polaris Dawn, a private space mission. 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