For Alyssa Carson, colonizing Mars is just the first step in saving the human race.
The 18-year-old astrobiology student at Florida Tech remembers when she was nine years old, she had the opportunity to meet and speak to former NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus at the Sally Ride Science Festival in Louisiana.
She's now 18 years old with a pilot's license, is"certified" to go to space and hopes to be a part of the crew that lays down the foundation to colonize the red planet. "Eventually the sun will run out of fuel to burn ... and conditions on Earth are going to be very different from our normal regular life now," Carson said."It's not necessarily saying Mars is the savior here ...
Story continuesOriginally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Carson has always been interested in outer space and exploring other planets, even though the rest of her family wasn't as captivated. "It's a double-edged sword," Bert Carson said. "I mean, I'm proud of what she's accomplished but on the other side of this, I know everything out there wants to kill her so it's hard as a parent, but I feel like you have to support your child and their dream even if it's a dream that may kill them. She's gotten me to understand how important it is about saving the human species so I have to look at it like it's bigger than the two of us.
When she was 11, she gave her first public speech to around 400 children who were attending a 4-H camp. The speech topic? That's right, space. "We wouldn't go to Mars without people like that," Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden told FLORIDA TODAY. "You got to have somebody that wants to go there and you got to have somebody that thinks it's important to do that, and you got to get lots and lots of young people that think that way for the program to move ahead".
That's where Florida Tech comes in. The university – founded around the space industry – is among the few to offer astrobiology as an undergraduate degree. Back in 2016, she became the youngest to be accepted and graduate from the Advanced PoSSUM Academy – an immersive astronautics program for high school and college students held at Embry-Riddle University – making her certified to be an astronaut trainee and hitch a ride to space.
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