Lauren WebberPosted on 09/01/2018 2:38:05 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Alyssa Carson fell in love with space when she was only 3 years old and now is making it her life’s work to be the first human to land on Mars.
The 17-year-old is training to be on the first NASA trip to the Red Planet, where she says she’ll spend two to three years.
It started with “The Backyardigans” — a TV show that features an episode called “Mission to Mars.” After watching the episode, the rest of her life would be focused on all things space.
Carson began her journey at NASA’s United State Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.
Alyssa Carson, 17, is preparing to be the first human on Mars (Photo: NASA Blueberry)
“My dad had to go through everything with me. It was the best weekend of my life. I learned everything about space that I wanted to know. I kept going every year,” Carson said.
As of now, the mission to Mars is scheduled for 2033. They will travel in the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and use the Orion spacecraft.
“With the current technology, it will take 6 months to get to Mars. We will stay there for over a year because we have to wait for the planets to align together and then it is a nine-month trip back,” Carson said. “It’s a two- to three-year mission in total.”
Carson says she wants to make new discoveries and learn more about Mars. She says she will be looking at the water samples, seeing if they can find any signs of life and uncover the history.
“To understand what’s going on there and what resources we can find,” Carson said. “It’s something that I think is super important for us to accomplish.”
Alyssa Carson, 17, is preparing to be the first human on Mars (Photo: NASA Blueberry)
Until the mission to Mars, she will continue preparing and building her resume. Right now, she’s working on getting her pilot’s license, underwater survival training, scuba diving certification and more.
“Follow your dream. When I was three saying I wanted to go to Mars, it was absolutely insane. But now, I am out here doing actual training,” she said.
You can read more about her here.
If she's smart, she'll have any kids she intends to have BEFORE going out in space and being exposed to radiation.
The technology to safely cross the Atlantic Ocean did not exist when the first settlers came to the New World. They came anyway. Men, women, and children. Almost half of the Mayflower colonists died the first winter, many of them women and children.
If you want to send her to die alone in space, then, by all means, send her.
I really doubt they will be sending anybody on a solo journey to Mars. If she goes, it will be as part of a crew.
How is she going to be the “first human” on Mars then?
Wouldn’t she then be among the “first humans” on Mars?
Is the crew just going to let her walk out first because she’s a girl?
I’m not seeing it.
I would be very happy to do so. Alas and alack, I am too old. She is not. I would support her and others like her in any way I could. If you have hope for the future, you would do the same.
You would have stopped expansion westward of the Mississippi, wouldn’t you? Space IS the future of mankind. It is hard for me to believe that anyone holding a cell phone can think the way you do.
Hope is neither a plan, a strategy or a technology.
I would support her by telling her not to let a bunch of starry eyed fools kill her by firing her off into the void of space.
Apples and oranges, man.
The technology to expand west of the Mississippi existed at that time.
The technology for successful human travel to mars does not.
As a conservative , I will do everything I can do to defund this futile effort.
Technology to go to the moon in 1960 didn’t exist, either. By 1969 it did. It is just a matter of choosing a goal, funding it, and doing it. A Mars mission is feasible.
Are you thinking that anyone would send someone out there just to kill them? It didn't happen in the 1960s, and it won't happen in the near future. If anything, NASA is too careful.
As a conservative, I will do everything within my power to see that this mission gets funded.
Color me highly skeptical.
IOW, she won't ever be going to Mars. She'll probably end up on the View or some such ****.
My initial thought was that she was being groomed to play the part played by the “cabin boy” back in the day of sail.
My first thought was, she's being used for PR purposes.
OK, I’ll get out my crayons. ;-D
LOL :D
Poor girl. If she is hitching her wagon to NASA there is no chance she will ever get to Mars.
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