Gillis

Personal data: Birth date:  01.01.1994 Birthplace:  Palo Alto, California Marital status:   Children:   Grade / Fonction:   Selection date:   Selection group:  SpaceX Position:   Status:  Ret.: 15.09.2024

Spaceflights:

EVA's:

Astronaut Career:

• Private mission by SpaceX (not to the ISS).
• 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.for Dragon’s human spaceflight missions.
• Polaris Dawn:
  In September 2024 Gillis flew on Polaris Dawn, a private spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman.[8][9] She performed a stand-up extravehicular activity (SEVA) with Jared Isaacman, becoming the youngest person to do so. Gillis, along with Anna Menon, set the record for the farthest women from Earth. Later during the mission, Gillis, a classically trained violinist, played the solo violin part of "Rey's Theme" by John Williams from the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and El Sistema.