Kellie Gerardi leads Mission Operations for Palantir Technologies, having joined the company in 2015 after previous work with Masten Space Systems, DARPA, and the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. In addition to her role at Palantir, Kellie is a bioastronautics researcher flying to space as a payload specialist on a dedicated science mission with Virgin Galactic, during which she'll operate healthcare and fluid experiments in space on behalf of the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS). Kellie’s selection by IIAS marked a world first in civilian research on a commercial spacecraft and her Mission will build on research and knowledge gained from multiple years of reduced gravity flight campaigns here on Earth, including with the National Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Space Agency. Kellie is a Member and former Board Member of The Explorers Club, whose esteemed flag she carried during a crew rotation at the Mars Desert Research Station. She is also the author of Not Necessarily Rocket Science and the children’s picture book series Luna Muna, which was flown to the International Space Station in 2023 and read from space by Axiom-2 Commander Peggy Whitson as part of the crew's STEM outreach activities. Kellie’s work as a popular science communicator has attracted nearly one million fans across social media platforms. She lives in Jupiter, Florida with her husband Steven and their daughter Delta V.  

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