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The mom of one is a bioastronautics researcher who made news in July when she got recruited by Virgin Galactic as a "citizen astronaut."

Gerardi has studied bioastronautics through the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, a citizen-science institute based in Boulder, Colorado, that specializes in space-related fields.

Kellie Gerardi, a 32-year-old bioastronautics researcher and social media influencer is gearing up for the flight of her life – to space with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic.

The doctor who devised them, William Randolph Lovelace, was also head of Nasa's Special Committee on Bioastronautics.

Wagner doesn’t work as an engineer — she has degrees in biomedical engineering, aeronautics and astronautics and bioastronautics — but she is still in the space business.