Success· Flight 1
Polaris Dawn
- Launched
- Sep 10, 2024 · 09:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- From
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
- Destination
- Low Earth Orbit
- Landed
- Sep 15, 2024
Crewmates
Jared IsaacmanSpX
Scott PoteetSpX
Anna MenonNASA

Occasional Spaceflight· SpX · American
Sarah Gillis is a Lead Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX, responsible for overseeing the company’s astronaut training program. This includes the development...

Spaceflights
1
first flight
Time in space
4days
Spacewalks
1
Spacewalking
0 h 08 m
in total
Bars drawn to scale, 0 to 2 hours
Polaris Dawn EVA 2
Sep 12, 2024
Success· Flight 1
Sarah Gillis is a Lead Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX, responsible for overseeing the company’s astronaut training program. This includes the development of mission-specific curriculum and training execution for both NASA and commercial astronauts who fly aboard the Dragon spacecraft. She prepared NASA astronauts for the Demo-2 and Crew-1 missions as well as directly trained the Inspiration4 astronauts. She 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 a crew communicator for Dragon’s human spaceflight missions.
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