Sarah Gillis
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| Born | Sarah Levine 1994 (age 29–30)[1] |
| Status | Active |
| Alma mater | University of Colorado Boulder (Aerospace engineering) |
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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.[2]
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.[3]
In 2015, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, Gillis began an internshipatSpaceX, working on human-in-the-loop testing of the Dragon spacecraft before moving full-time to the astronaut training program.[citation needed]
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.[4]
Gillis is scheduled to fly on Polaris Dawn, a private spaceflight funded by Jared Isaacman.[5] She will perform an extravehicular activity with Jared Isaacman.
Gillis appears in episodes 3, 4 and 5 in the 2021 Netflix series Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space.
My name is Sarah Gillis, and I'm 27...
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