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A 12-years-old Pakistani student Raadeyah Aamir has been selected for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) internship program. She will be attending the one-week program which includes training for next-generation Astronaut Training Experience.
Student of eighth grade at British Overseas School, Karachi, Raadeyah is one of 26 students of different countries selected for the NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre’s week program. She is departing today for Florida.
US Embassy of Pakistan shared the news on their Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/pakistan.usembassy/photos/a.177646208620/10156452316608621/?type=3&theater
NASA and her school coordinated and for her interest in aerospace and outstanding performance, Raadeyah got selected.
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She will be given training as the next generation of space explorers in the Astronaut Training Experience. Through virtual and motion stimulation she will experience land walk and drive on Mars and conduct a spacewalk in a microgravity experience.