WATCH: "My mommy's gonna be an astronaut!"
Updated | By East Coast Radio
Kellie Gerardi, a bioastronautics researcher and a social media influencer, will be going to space.

An opportunity to visit space isn't something that comes around too often. So when Virgin Galactic announced that they would be sending a flight to space that would be dedicated to performing tests on healthcare technologies, Kellie Gerardi was all for it.
She is a researcher for the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS), as well as a popular social media influencer. With an audience of over 417-million followers on TikTok, she is very well known.
"The flight will include a carrier plane taking off a runway. It will then drop the spacecraft in air. The spacecraft will then ignite its engines," India Today reports.
Gerardi will be performing a number of experiments while in space. She has practised many of the experiments in a controlled environment already. The experiments include bio-monitoring instrumentation to measure the biological effects of launch, weightlessness, re-entry, and landing on spaceflight participants.
"The opportunity to fly as a payload specialist on a Virgin Galactic spaceflight brings everything full circle for me, and I look forward to helping pave the path for many talented researchers who are sure to follow."- Kelli said in a statement
Watch a video on TikTok with her daughter and her announcing the moment to her followers (courtesy of TikTok):
@kelliegerardi Delta Explains It All 💕👩🚀
♬ Taste It - Ikson
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Image Courtesy of TikTok
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