This is Emily, the youngest woman to ever go to space! She is 15 years old and only recently became a NASA astronaut! She loves stars and planets. She is pretty bubbly but also very intelligent. She originally lived in Chicago, where she lost her Dad in a fire when she was 13. She and her mom moved to Florida. She was walking along the beach in the evening one night when she noticed a light moving upward and leaving a cloud of smoke behind. That was when she saw her first rocket launch and fell in love with the thought of space. From then on, working to become a NASA employee was her dream as she tried to provide for her mom.