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All I've ever wanted to do since I was
in eighth grade is send something to
Mars.
My passion for space was ignited when
Apollo 11 landed on the moon on my
seventh birthday. Uh when I was growing
up, I never went through the what do you
want to be when you grow up? I always
knew it was space, space, space. It was
growing up at the time of the Mercury,
Gemini, and Apollo era. the future was
coming true before my very eyes. I think
I've known that I wanted to be a
planetary scientist since I was about,
you know, nine or 10 years old. I've
been a space geek since probably I was,
I don't know, four or eight years old or
something like that. I think it was just
one popular science magazine where
there's like this beautiful fold out of
just kind of like our place in the solar
system. And as an 8-year-old child, you
it's just and even now like you're like,
I just don't get it. Going to Mars is
like the new frontier, you know? We
don't have Louiswis and Clark
exploration kind of events here on Earth
as much anymore. And so we get to do
that. When the first possibility of
landing a little rover and bouncing it
in airbags around the surface of Mars
came up, I was oh so excited about the
idea to get to send things to Mars. It's
everything I've dreamed of since 8th
grade.