Alyssa Carson

Alyssa Carson (born March 10, 2001), also known by the call sign Blueberry, is an American student with the goal of training as an astronaut and being selected for future human spaceflight to Mars. She was inspired at age 3 by the Nickelodeon series The Backyardigans (2004) and went on to attend U.S. Space Camp in 2008. She has also attended other space camps in Laval, Quebec and in Izmir, Turkey. In 2013, she was recognized by NASA as the first to visit all 14 NASA Visitor Centers in the United States. In 2019 she enrolled at Florida Institute of Technology studying Astrobiology and has also previously attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.