This 13-Year-Old Girl Is Training To Be One Of The First People To Land On Mars
BuzzFeed - Latest 2014-10-08
Summary:
Alyssa Carson describes herself as “Future Mars Walker,” and she is amazing.
Alyssa Carson is training to be one of the first people to step on Mars — and she's only in the seventh grade.
The teen from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has already proved her incredible determination at just 13 years old: She became the first person to attend all three NASA world space camps in the world.
She's attended Space Camp seven times and the Robotics Academy, and has attended Sally Ride Camp at MIT.
She's witnessed three space shuttle launches, regularly delivers motivational speeches, and says that "failure is not an option" for her.
