Yaroslava Kravchuk was over the moon when she realized what she received in the mail on her birthday in March.
A 15-year-old from a remote town on Kazakhstan’s border with Russia, Yaroslava had won an educational grant from the Foundation for International Space Education to attend the United Space School. This program brings prodigious children from all over the world to study at the University of Houston-Clear Lake under the mentorship of engineers and scientists.
She and dozens of other students designed their own mission to Mars over two weeks and presented their work to a panel of experts at UHCL on Saturday.
