A 13-year-old girl from Louisiana hopes to be the first person to land on Mars, reports said.

Alyssa Carson, a teenager from Baton Rouge, has wanted to be an Astronaut since the age of 4, according to BBC News.

Carson is working to realize her dream that dream and has attended training "for nine years so far." She's said to have thought about being other things "but being an astronaut was always first on her list."

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"I want to go to Mars because it's a place that no one has been," Carson told media.

This young dreamer became the first person to attend all three world space camps of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including the National Flight Academy, NASA's Space Flight Academy and Robotics Academy.

The US space agency is taking people like Carson very seriously, said Paul Foreman, NASA's spokesman.

Carson is at the perfect age to "become an astronaut and eventually travel to Mars one day," Foreman said. "She's doing the right training, taking the right steps to become an astronaut."

After studying science, several languages and attended several training camps, Carson was given a call sign, "Blueberry," at the second Space Camp.

"I was wearing a deep blue flight suit and one of the smallest in the group. I was called Blueberry and have kept that as my call sign," the teenager said.

Bert Carson, Alyssa's father, said his daughter plans to be on NASA's first manned expedition to Mars in 2033.

"We have the next 20 years planned out, we know what she's doing," Mr. Carson said.

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