Calandrelli

Personal data: Birth date:  1986 or 1987(age ~38) Birthplace:  Morgantown, West Virginia, USA Marital status:  married Children:  two Education:  West Virginia University (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS) Known for:  Host of Xploration Outer Space and Emily's Wonder Lab Status:  Ret

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• Emily Dawn Calandrelli is an American science communicator, engineer, author, and television presenter. She is the host and an executive producer of Xploration Outer Space and previously Emily's Wonder Lab
• Calandrelli attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she obtained an M.S. in aeronautics & astronautics as well an M.S. in technology & policy in 2013. In 2011, Calandrelli was awarded the René Miller Prize in Systems Engineering.[8] As a Harvard NASA Tournament Lab visiting scholar, she assisted organizations in using crowdsourcing to solve technical challenges.
• As a college student, Calandrelli worked at NASA as an intern. Her work at NASA included designing the simulation for the Phoenix Mars Lander's soil testing experiment, research on the use of lasers to reduce harmful emissions from jet engines, and developing chemical detection sensors.
• During her internship at NASA, she met another aerospace engineer, Tommy Franklin. They married and have two children.
• In July 2024, Calandrelli announced that she will be a passenger on a New Shepard flight to space. On November 22, 2024, Calendrelli successfully launched into space as a member of Blue Origin's NS-28 mission, the company's ninth space tourism flight. She became the 100th woman in space, and the 10th woman to fly on a suborbital spaceflight above the Kármán line.