This seven-year-old space fan is making plans with NASA Updated
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A seven-year-old space fan has impressed the world s leading space pioneers and will become the first child to send something to the moon.
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Elizabeth Norman, aka Astro Liz, is a seven-year-old astronaut in the making and has her own YouTube channel where she shares her passion for all things space. After staging her own space rocket launch, she was discovered by some pretty important people. Her enormous enthusiasm for all things lunar captured the attention of US experts currently prepping the real Vulcan Centaur for the first moon landing in nearly 50 years, states Metro.
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Budding astronaut Elizabeth, from Leicester, became obsessed with space after watching the landing of Nasa’s Perseverance Rover on Mars last year and decided to build her own rocket.
She launched a 7ft cardboard model of the Vulcan Centaur rocket – which will blast off to the Moon – from her garden in January. When it soared 30ft into the air, the impressed makers of the real Vulcan Centaur, American space launch experts United Launch Alliance, and Astrobotic, which created the lander it will carry, got in touch.
They offered her room for her sticker on board the first lunar time capsule which will contain items from those lucky or wealthy enough to get a slot.
Budding young astronaut set to make history by leaving a little gift from Leicester on the Moon
Seven-year-old rocketeer Elizabeth Norman has a role in the mission to land the first private payload on the lunar surface
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