A message from Nicole Mann! She spent 157 days in orbit on the @ISS in 2022/3 where she conducted 2 spacewalks totaling 14hrs 2mins! She is the first Indigenous woman from NASA to go to space. 💫 Thank you for your service & for your encouraging tribute! youtu.be/hLu3-NftrWo

2: The pentagon represents both the 5 primary IIAS mission participants - Gerardi, Gonzalez, Persad, Pandya, and Reimuller - and Virgin Galactic flight #5. 3: The 9-pointed sunrise symbolizes everyone in IIAS over the 9 years of its existence & the beginning of a new era

Converging on the sunrise are the 4 main mission objectives: 4: An EKG pulse for the Astroskin biomonitor: Yvette Gonzalez, Co-PI Yvette Marie, MPH 5: A fluid cell: Aaron Persad, Co-PI 6: A droplet of blood with a stylized glucose molecule inside: Shawna Pandya, Co-PI Dr. Shawna Pandya

7: The globe represents the worldwide IIAS research community: Dr. Jason Reimuller, IIAS Founder 8: 8 stars are the colleagues & family supporting Kellie Gerardi’s spaceflight. 9: The star in the spaceship represents Kellie Gerardi, the first IIAS Researcher to fly into space!

The “IIAS-01” at the bottom honors this as the first in a series of more research spaceflights! ____________________ 𝘕𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦? Visit astronauticsinstitute.org/about/donate/ to learn how you can get your very own! 💫

We are over the moon for this patch! Another stunner Tom Foltz Art !!

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Our team’s arrival to spaceport! 💫

This research spaceflight took all hands on deck. Virgin Galactic was exceptional to work with. From the engineers, to the payload integration team, to the facilities team, to the pilots - it was the ideal environment for research to take flight. This is research spaceflight.

What a sight!

Our entire IIAS community is proud that our IIAS-01 research mission took place as part of the Virgin Galactic ‘Galactic 05’ spaceflight! #noteventheskyisalimit #justthebeginning #research #spaceflight #gal05 #iias01 Kellie Gerardi Alan Stern

These wings on Kellie Gerardi are a timeless reminder of spaceflight, of community, and of the future. ✨✨✨Virgin Galactic

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Listen now to this inspiring message from our Advisory Team member and analog expert Joao Lousada! youtu.be/UQRcP0jP1eI?si…

This!!! #10percent #thenextgeneration #justthebeginning #noteventheskyisalimit

What an impact. #10percent #justthebeginning #thenextgeneration

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This spaceflight moment for our International Institute for Astronautical Sciences team still gives us chills and inspires!