Astronaut Kellie Gerardi brought Taylor Swift-inspired friendship bracelets to space

Kellie Gerardi walks the runway for Rise’s Survivor Fashion Show at the Museum of Modern Art in 2021. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Kellie Gerardi took friendship bracelets farther than any other person on the planet: to space.

“I was the 90th woman ever to go to space,” she said in a FaceTime call of the trip she took earlier this month, “and so this is still quite new terrain. But that was also another point of why I didn’t want to tone it down.”