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This Teen Wants to be the First Person Landing on MARS !!!

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Alyssa Carson, from Louisiana, wants to be the first person on Mars

Determined ... Alyssa Carson wants to be the first person on Mars. Picture: Twitter.

Determined … Alyssa Carson wants to be the first person on Mars. Picture: Twitter. Source: Supplied

THIS 13-year-old girl has been training to be an astronaut for nine years and is determined to become the first person to land on Mars.

Alyssa Carson is the first person to have attended all three of NASA’s world space camps.

The Louisiana teenager speaks Spanish, French and Chinese, and is prolific on social media.

She told the BBC that she wants to inspire other children to achieve their dreams.

“I have thought about possibly being other things but being an astronaut was always first on my list,” she said. “I don’t want one obstacle in the way to stop me from going to Mars … Failure is not an option”.

 

And NASA is not discounting her ambitions. Her call sign at the US space agency is “Blueberry”.

“She is of the perfect age to one day become an astronaut and eventually travel to Mars,” NASA’s Paul Foremantold the BBC. “She is doing the right thing, she is doing the right training, taking all the right steps to actually become an astronaut.”

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Bret Carson, Alyssa’s dad, said he has spoken to his daughter about the possibility that she may never return from Mars but he says she isn’t worried about that.

“We have the next 20 years planned out, we know what she’s doing, she’s looking at going on a mission to mars in 2033,” he said. “In 20 years I may not ever see her again, there are options out there where they go to mars and not come back, and we’ve had those discussions, and if that’s the only option she still wants to go.”

Source:::: news.com.au

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NASA Invites Public to send their Names into Space !!!

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Over 2.8 lakh people from around the world, including 21,729 Indians, have so far submitted their names to be inscribed on a NASA microchip that will eventually fly to Mars.

NASA is giving people a chance to shoot their names up into space on the first Orion mission, scheduled to for launch on December 4, and then eventually to the Red Planet.

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Currently, 2,80,429 people have submitted their names to fly into space.

The highest number of names submitted to NASA so far from a single country – a total of 1,13,121 – comes from the USA while the third-largest submission of names is from India, with 21,729 space enthusiasts from the nation giving their names.

Other countries with high participation include UK (22,491 names), Philippines (9,869 names) and Canada (7,760 names). Currently, only 1,828 names have been submitted from China and 1,620 from Pakistan.

The collected names will be included on a microchip the size of a dime. The first trip will be on board NASA’s initial test flight for the new Orion spacecraft. It is set for a 4.5-hour mission in orbit around Earth.

“After returning to Earth, the names will fly on future NASA exploration flights and missions to Mars. With each flight, selected individuals will accrue more miles as members of a global space-faring society,” NASA said.

To sign up, users have to go to NASA’s name-collecting site, fill out some basic information, and submit. The site then generates a digital “boarding pass.”

The deadline for getting your name on Orion’s inaugural flight is October 31.

SOURCE::::: THE HINDU.COM

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