page_title: Kellie Gerardi
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caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Kellie Gerardi, microgravity researcher and Scientist-Astronaut Candidate, in her Final Frontier Design IVA spacesuit.
context_page_description: Kellie Gerardi is a commercial spaceflight industry professional and popular science communicator. She is the author of Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner's Guide To Life in the Space Age, published November 2020 by Mango Media. She is a citizen scientist and conducts research in microgravity with Project PoSSUM, the first crewed suborbital research program to study the upper atmosphere and the role it plays in understanding our global climate. She was previously one of 100 candidates selected to colonize Mars via Dutch non-profit Mars One.
context_section_description: Kellie Gerardi is a commercial spaceflight industry professional and popular science communicator. She is the author of Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner's Guide To Life in the Space Age, published November 2020 by Mango Media. She is a citizen scientist and conducts research in microgravity with Project PoSSUM, the first crewed suborbital research program to study the upper atmosphere and the role it plays in understanding our global climate. She was previously one of 100 candidates selected to colonize Mars via Dutch non-profit Mars One.
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