Alyssa Carson
I definitely think that kind of the first thing that I would want to do when I get to Mars will probably just kind of just be like running around and just kind of like taking everything in even you know looking for the earth in the Sky from Mars know everything that we've ever known is just this tiny dot and now here we are on Mars trying to learn even.
I'm Alyssa Carson I am 18 years old I am from Baton Rouge LA in the United States and my dream is to be one of the astronauts on one of the missions to Mars so I first got interested in the idea of space when I was around 3 years.
So after watching a cartoon called the backyardigans and the show is basically these characters who go on imaginary adventures every episode and one of the episodes was called a mission to Mars and I even had like the poster of the episode hung in my bedroom so after watching the show might add kind of remembers me asking him like oh are there people on Mars is space real and then from there my curiosity just kind of blew up with all these questions about space the whole idea of kind of a mission to Mars and that being the aspect of space.
I wanted to study and wanted kind of be apart of really just kind of came with my studying of space in general Mars is really the next place that allowed before talking about I'm looking towards and it was the next place with all this interest Mars is really the closest planet to us that we can get to and we can explore so it's kind of just technologically feasible to do growing up I got to see you know curiosity which is kind of a main Rover that is being used to Mars right now I've got to see that being said to Mars and Landon seeing all the different discoveries but with the technology and the Rovers and all that we have there says kind of moved pretty slow and finding these things so with humans on Mars would still find if there's bacteria life in the water we could see if Mars had potentially be a second place for humans to live on I've seen you know how humans can adapt to Mars and just kind of learning a bit more about the history of it at 15 is when I joined an organization called project possum an project.
Awesome is actually this group of citizen scientists really studying clouds in upper atmosphere that's kind of their main goal so with them I was able to do really awesome training such as microgravity training the first time was just mind-blowing you know I've never felt anything like it's really hard to describe it's just this amazing feeling that I've never felt before you know you start feeling in your stomach eventually your stomach starts getting a bit uncomfortable with it but it's definitely a really amazing feeling to kind of simulate what I could potentially be looking in the future there's a lot of issues that we are currently facing to get people from earth to Mars the radiation levels between earth and Mars the development of a new rocket and capsule and crane all this new technology for this mission and then understanding how we can live on Mars since Mars is very different with you know it doesn't have us they give an atmosphere it does have oxygen there so there's a lot of challenges that we've never experienced before that we're trying to learn and kind of figure out now before kind of the projected date of going to Mars which should be around the early twenty 30s big picture here kind of like the future for future generations you know through kind of the study of other Suns and planets we do know that the sun eventually stops burning pushing for future space exploration is actually to continue the survival of humans in general definitely Mars isn't the ultimate savior here because Mars is part of the exact same solar system and so Mars would go along with earth but more so just kind of that first baby step in getting us to you know yes we do have the technology we have the people we have the capability after we get there the kind of the hope is that another kid possibly after me as a dream to go to a moon of Jupiter or so until we actually become these kind of like sci-fi characters that we actually dream up you know one of the biggest things that I'm super proud of is all of the kids that I've been able to inspire 'cause I definitely know me as little 3 year old saying that once the astronaut and go to Mars is basically the craziest thing I could have ever thought up so seeing it become more more of a reality has really showed me that you know kids can follow their dreams no matter what they are
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