From Pakistan to NASA: The Future Shining Star ‘Radeeyah Aamir’
Zernab Farooqi
Posted On February 18, 2019
NASA has selected Raadeyah Aamir, a 12-year-old female, who is studying in 8Th Class at the British Overseas School. She is passionate to study all about space. And soon her passion will become reality. On 16Th Of February, she will be traveling to NASA Kennedy Space Center, Orlando, Florida from Jinnah International Airport, Karachi. She is going to attend the one-week Internship Program for next-generation Astronaut Training Experience.
Radeeyah is very excited about her internship program as this is her dream to visit space and to become an astronaut. She is going to get a chance to get all the next-generation Astronaut training experience.
The training session that she will attend includes land, walk and drive on Mars using virtual and motion simulation. Also, she will get a chance of microgravity spacewalk.
Among other exciting things, she will be able to live and work on Mars to solve base emergencies, sustain life in the botany lab and program robots to optimize solar energy.
For this once in the lifetime opportunity of getting a chance to visit space, she is very excited and said that it is her ambition to go to NASA and wave Pakistani flag. Moreover, she said that she is very much interested in space exploration. She added, she loves to explore glittering stars in the galaxy. And, she asked to pray for her success in this regard.
We wish her good luck for her efforts and space journey. Hopefully to see her as a next Pakistani Female Astronaut.
