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Alyssa Carson, Space Advocate

From Wikipedia, Alyssa Carson

In 2014, Carson was the first person to complete the “NASA Passport Program” visiting each of NASA’s fourteen visitor centers across nine states. She was then invited to participate as a panelist at the MER (Mars Exploration Rover) 10 Panel at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.[15] In 2014, Carson was featured as the Youngest Female Groundbreaker on the Steve Harvey talk show. Carson was featured in the 2017 documentary The Mars Generation.[16][17]

Carson self-published So, You Want to Be an Astronaut (2018)[18] about her passion for space flight and has written for The Independent.[19] She has given TEDx talks encouraging young girls to pursue careers in STEM in Kalamata, Greece (2014),[20] Bucharest, Romania (2018),[21] and Klagenfurt, Austria (2019).[22]

 

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