Out of the World Quest of An Unstoppable Alyssa Carson

By: Kasey Angeli D. Villaverde

"Don't tell me sky's the limit when there's footprints on the moon."

Alyssa Carson knew that she wanted to be an astronaut at the age of 3. According to her, an episode entitled "A Mission
to Mars" of the cartoon Backyardigans was the reason why she started dreaming about being an astronaut. Since then,
her fascination related to astronomy started.

She was chosen as a participant on the Mars Exploration Rover 10 panel in Washington DC. In this particular event, she
discussed about the Mars and even described it as "home" at the age of 12.

As she grew up, she gave all of her efforts and worked tirelessly to reach her dream ever since she was a child. As a
matter of fact, she was the youngest person who graduated from the Advanced Space Academy at the age of 16.

Advanced Space Academy is an educational camp in Huntsville Alabama which provides educational programs about
space exploration. In this academy, trainees pass through varieties of astronaut training exercises, challenges and
activities to enhance and build up their ability as future astronauts. This shows that this academy is perfect for Alyssa for
her passion and admiration in astronomy.

So far, Alyssa was also the first person who completed all of NASA's Space Camps. She also had the opportunity to visit
21 countries and learned 4 languages as a part of her training. Her training made her realize that we are all one despite
our differences. Completing the Space Camps of NASA is a big achievement, no wonder why she is chosen to be the first
person in Mars.

Her latest achievement was the Certificate of Suborbital Flight which authorizes her to cross the outerspace. For now,
they are building SLS Space Launch System Rocket that is intended to be used in the mission as the year 2030s rolls.
Astronauts will be sent to the red planet to conduct researches for over a year. It will take 6 months to get to Mars and 9
months to get back to Earth.

Alyssa said her ultimate out of the world dream was to achieve her Mission to Mars in the year 2033. With her passion
and determination, no one can ever stop her from making her all-time dream into reality.