Twelve-year-old Emily Boyce knows exactly what she wants to do in life.
“I want to be the first woman on the moon and the first person on Mars,” she said.
Emily was one of 54 middle school children who, for one week, joined the Federation of Galaxy Explorers at Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy, one of Peterson Air Force Base’s feeder schools at 4220 E. Pikes Peak Ave.
The children and their instructors called themselves Moon Base One Camp. They broke up into two teams – they designed their mission patch, built models of the moon, studied space suits, busted rocks to examine their core material and launched their hand-made rockets.
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