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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sen-lu" data-source="post: 26480942" data-attributes="member: 570569">This is false. She's just a kid who has visited a bunch of space centers!NASA give you an award if you visit all 14 space centers (as an incentive to sell tickets) and she's built this fake “trainee astronaut” social media persona off the back of that.She uses “NASA” in her social media handles, and wears the souvenir NASA jumpsuits that you can buy in gift shops, in her social media posts.But NASA have put out a few statements saying she's not affiliated with them in any way.The entire premise is silly. You don't train to be a professional astronaut any more. NASA don't identify future astronauts outside of the standard selection process. Nor has NASA received funding or directive to actually plan a Mars mission. They send up physicists, engineers and scientists people who can conduct research. So, if you want to actually be an astronaut these days you need to be one of the top academics in the world. It's not a case of just passing tests.Copied from Quora.</blockquote>

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