00:06There is a cryo tank with a backup CW.
00:12Looking for the Freon pump loop switch.
00:16Put that switch to the bravo position.
00:33The odds are pretty narrow, but the bottom line is, how can you set yourself apart from everybody else?
00:39I'm going to tell you, everything she's done will set her apart.
00:42I'm Melissa Carson, I'm 15, and I'm going to Mars.
00:48Going to Mars and kind of pushing that future for space exploration is critical to the survival of humans
00:54because it's already been said that a single plant species will become extinct.
00:59And eventually, as the solar system dies out, then we would go with it.
01:08Alyssa, are you about ready?
01:10Yeah, I'm bringing an extra shirt.
01:12Okay.
01:13In case they don't have a wetsuit.
01:14Okay, you got a towel.
01:16Are you going to break two towels, or just one?
01:20It's amazing how much stuff you have to have.
01:22We're very close because I'm a single dad and she's my only child,
01:25and so we've become this great team to get all this stuff accomplished.
01:30I first got interested in wanting to go to space around when I was three years old.
01:36She attended space camp at eight, and it was her first time, and she won the Right Stuff Award.
01:41And I thought to myself, if all of these experts are looking at this child
01:45and the very first time she wins the Right Stuff Award, then they see something in her.
01:49And I just thought to myself, my kid's going to Mars.
01:59I'm continually impressed with her dedication and passion that has not faded at all.
02:04And she just goes at everything 110% when it comes to this mission.
02:10And I just don't see how she does it, but she does.
02:14And it's amazing to watch her work.
02:17Keep a lookout that way and take a big giant step.
02:20Big giant step.
02:25I have gone to all the official渦 Schw 때espHHHHM camps in the world.
02:31Also, I have gotten my advanced scuba certification.
02:35I am currently working on my pilot license.
02:37And I was the youngest to be accepted and graduate from Advanced Possum Academy in Daytona Beach, Florida.
02:44I would like to go to Cambridge in the UK for my undergrad and then for my
02:49master's I would like to go to International Space University in
02:51Strasbourg, France and then I'd finish off at MIT majoring in astrobiology.
03:05This is kind of the generation that's going to be working towards that mission
03:08to Mars. It's all about finding things like Starbase like this to see kind of
03:12push your interest and seeing what else you can do. So really just follow your
03:15dreams. Any questions over here? Yeah.
03:18Can you say hi my name is Alyssa Carson and the languages?
03:22And all four languages? Okay, so English, hi my name is Alyssa Carson, French, bonjour, je m'appelle Alyssa Carlson,
03:30Spanish, hola, me llamo Alyssa Carlson and Chinese, ni hao, voldo ming zisha, Alysha.
03:34Yeah.
03:35Why do you want to go to Mars?
03:42I think it would widen people's minds and show them there's so much more out there
03:46than our little area that we have here on Earth.
03:49You're so good.
03:51Yeah, I'm good.
03:52When I land on Mars, it will be the beginning of humankind as a multi-planetary species.
03:57That's why I've always wanted to focus on astrobiology, geology, biology, so kind of those aspects
04:03of the planet and just learning more about the soil, the water. We can basically create another Earth from Mars.
04:10Most astronauts that are selected have gone and gotten their PhD already and they've usually got two or three years
04:17of experience.
04:17So they're anywhere from 28 to 30 years old when they get selected.
04:23Even after they're selected, it's five, six, seven years worth of training.
04:28So most of the astronauts are in their late 30s to early 40s before they ever fly for the first
04:33time.
04:34It appears to me that Alyssa is right on that path.
04:37And did you notice the color of iron sulfate?
04:41It's reddish.
04:42Yeah, what does it make you think of?
04:45It looks like iron.
04:46Mars.
04:46Like, ooh.
04:48To be able to go to Mars, you're going to have to be able, not only, you're going to have
04:52to be resourceful,
04:53you're going to have to have the ability to live alone and by yourself for long periods of time.
04:58There's those intangibles that just come from being on a two-year journey going to another planet.
05:04It's hard for me to even imagine.
05:06As this thing gets further, Alyssa realizes that she will have to make the sacrifice of not having a family.
05:12Because when you're that far away, you don't want to worry about what's going on with your husband or your
05:18children because those kind of things will play mind tricks on you.
05:25Right now, there are different plans for going to Mars.
05:28One idea is based off of Mars One in the Netherlands, and that would be you would go to Mars
05:33and you would start colonizing and you would live there.
05:35So it would be a one-way trip.
05:37And then there's another mission is working with NASA and then also other space organizations where they would want to
05:43go to Mars, spend time on Mars, doing experiments, and then coming back.
05:48Honestly, for me, I would prefer to come back, but if the only option was to go to Mars and
05:52not come back, then I would still want to go to push that further space exploration.
05:57On the day that Alyssa would take off for Mars, it's going to be a bittersweet day.
06:02It's going to be a proud day for me as a father that she has accomplished her dreams, and it's
06:09going to be a sad day because I know how dangerous it's going to be for her.
06:18I can't talk about that.
06:20I can't talk about that.
06:47I can't talk about that.
06:49I can't talk about that.
