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Meet Manuel Perez
Schenectady High School, Schenectady, NY

Manuel's Essay
 
I Have Been Hired to Join
the First Human Mission to Mars

 Age 14          Grade 9         Teacher  Mrs. Huth


What is your career ambition?
My career ambition is to become a cardiologist

What did you find most exciting about the Electronic Field Trip Experience?
I found most exciting meeting the astronauts and seeing how they lived.  I also found it fun to do the national broadcast.  It made me feel like a superstar.  The great people I met were also awesome.

If give the opportunity, would you want to go on a space mission?
Yes, I would like to because space has microgravity, and I would like to know how astronauts feel when they are floating.  I would also like to go on a space mission because I like to investigate any other types of life there besides.

Manny's Thoughts On The Experience
The experience I had in Texas was one of the greatest in my life, and something I will never forget as long as I live.  Going to Space Center Houston was totally cool.  I liked the exhibits there, like the dinosaur robots. Going to Johnson Space Center was even cooler, and this made the experience even greater.  I never though I would go into the Johnson Space Center since it has always been off-limits to almost everyone.  I enjoyed going into the mock-ups of the space station.  They looked completely real.  I also enjoyed working with the people who made all of this possible.  On this trip, I have learned a lot about the lives of some astronauts, the food they eat, their training and the time it takes for them to go up into space.