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13-year-old Alyssa Carlson is the first person to complete NASA’s Passport Program, and is setting her sights on being the first human to step foot on Mars.
Alyssa said she wants to be the first person to set foot on Mars, in an interview during a BBC special. To make her dream a reality, she has been training for the past nine years by attending NASA space camps and learning multiple languages.
“NASA takes people like Alyssa very seriously,” NASA spokesman Paul Foreman told BBC. “She is of the perfect age to one day become an astronaut to eventually travel to Mars. She is doing the right things, taking the right training, taking all of the right steps to actually become an astronaut.”
Her goal is to travel to Mars on a mission in 2033.
Agencies/Canadajournal
