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Alexia Bravo of Vancouver is tracking asteroid trajectories with NASA. She’s also working on getting her driver’s license.
That’s right — the work is part of the 16-year-old’s summer internship with the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Space Research, where high school students are working alongside NASA scientists and engineers to analyze imagery and data received from satellites circling the Earth, moon and Mars.
