A teenager prepares to be the first human to walk on Mars

Before NASA's planned 2033 mission to Mars, it appears that the organization was able to find the ideal candidate for what might be their largest company, and this is in the form of Alyssa Carson, 17 years.

Teen Vogue reported an exclusive one-on-one interview with the future space traveler and learned remarkable things about his love of stars and planets. Surprisingly, his pbadion for space travel started with a penchant for the children's television show The Backyardigans in which five friends make imaginary adventures in their backyard, one of which trip to Mars. 19659004] "I thought:" This red planet is so cool " she says. "I started watching videos of rovers landing on Mars.I had a gigantic map of Mars in my room that I was looking at.We started having telescopes to be able to look at the space.

At only 7 years old, Carson attended her first space camp in Huntsville, Alabama, of which she speaks with affection, stating, "It was the weekend of my life. I had to learn everything that I had wanted to know and more … I could see a life-size rocket. "

When she was 9, the young science lover met the # NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus. At that meeting, she told Carson that she was in fact her age when she decided to go into space.

It is at this point that the future explorer knew that his love of space was not going away. "I did the same thing as other kids, like changing careers, wanting to be a teacher or president someday," she said. "But the way I always thought about it was that I would become an astronaut, that I would go to Mars, that I would come back, that I would be a teacher or the president."

The future space explorer loved his time at the camp so much that she came back 18 once again, becoming the first person to attend the three NASA camps in Alabama, Canada, and Turkey.

Although you must be 18 to enroll in NASA's official astronaut program, the organization would have already noticed its growing knowledge and abilities and is trying to make it as easy as possible. objective at the time of the mission.

In 2033, she will be the ideal candidate for the mission, at age 32 and with technology fully equipped to handle the trip, Carson would be much better trained and would have much more time.

Although this mbadive expedition lasted a decade, many other entities volunteered to send the future astronaut into space sooner.

The known organizations of SpaceX in MarsOne plan to send it in space, although not on Mars, much earlier. "If we can find her a mission in the next two years, she will be the first child in the world to go into space," said her father Bert Carson. "If we can do it before 20, she will be the first teenager. "