At just 19 years old, Alyssa’s list of accomplishments include witnessing 3 Space Shuttle launches, attending Space Camp 7 times, Space Academy 3 times, Robotics Academy once, youngest to graduate Advanced Space Academy, and multiple Sally Ride Camps. In 2012 and 2013, she furthered her education at Space Camp Turkey and Space Camp Canada, becoming the first person to attend all three NASA Space Camps in the world. Alyssa is also the first to complete the NASA Passport program, visiting all 14 NASA Visitor’s Centers stretching across 9 states.

Dr. Stephen Hawking is considered one of the greatest scientific minds of the modern era. He studied how the laws of force, motion, and energy work throughout the universe and how the universe began and how it might end. Hawking was a writer, researcher, and public speaker even though he had ALS, a disease that prevented him from moving or speaking by himself. He was in a wheelchair since his twenties, and he used a computer that could read his eye movements and change them into speech and text. None of that stopped Dr. Stephen Hawking from becoming one of the most well-known scientists in the world for his research and ideas about space.

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Dr. Jedidah Isler is an Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at Dartmouth College where she studies hyperactive, supermassive black holes. Her scientific research explores the physics of blazars – supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies that create particle jets moving at nearly the speed of light. She is a proud alumna of Norfolk State University’s Dozoretz National Institute for Mathematics and Applied Sciences (DNIMAS) and the Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Program. In 2014, she became the first African American woman to receive her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale University.

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