{"id":210997,"date":"2025-04-09T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/why-this-24-year-old-could-be-the-first-person-ever-to-step-foot-on-mars"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:02:48","slug":"why-this-24-year-old-could-be-the-first-person-ever-to-step-foot-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/why-this-24-year-old-could-be-the-first-person-ever-to-step-foot-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Why this 24-year-old could be the first person ever to step foot on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-this-24-year-old-could-be-the-first-person-ever-to-step-foot-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Carson, otherwise known by her call sign \u2018NASA Blueberry\u2019, is not only one of the youngest faces in the space agency but also one of the leading figures when it comes to exploration of Mars \u2014 and that could lead her to be the first person to ever set foot on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s currently 24 years old but her dreams first began at age 3, when she saw a cartoon that sparked her brain to begin dreaming of space travel.<\/p>\n<p>As revealed by <a class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive-share.america.gov\/shes-aiming-mars\/index.html\">ShareAmerica<\/a>, Carson has undergone a number countless training sessions and preparations for becoming an astronaut, and is currently studying a PhD in astrobiology which would be invaluable during a hypothetical trip to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyssa Carson, otherwise known by her call sign \u2018NASA Blueberry\u2019, is not only one of the youngest faces in the space agency but also one of the leading figures when it comes to exploration of Mars \u2014 and that could lead her to be the first person to ever set foot on the planet. She\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}