17-Year-Old May Be the 1st Person to Visit Mars

She’s also the youngest person to ever complete the Advanced Space Academy Program.

Alyssa Carson
IMAGE BY: NASA

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It’s a college-accredited program centered on astronaut training exercises, engineering challenges, team building, and mission simulation. Carson completed it before she was 16 years old, so if you ever want to feel unaccomplished, just know that there’s a high schooler out there who knows how to build both a rover and a goddam rocket.

 

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