Luciana Vega

Luciana Vega - Girl of the Year 2018

Astronaut Rhea Seddon, Luciana and me at the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center

Luciana (nicknamed Luci) is of Chilean descent. She aspires to be the first person to explore Mars, and refers to herself as the "Future First Girl on Mars."

She is very confident in herself and can be impulsive in a lot of her decisions, such as adding a purple streak in her hair to match her best friend Raelyn's and leading the Red Rovers to break the rules in an attempt to find their missing motor module. However, she can sometimes doubt herself due to her plans failing, and often worries about being a good leader and a good older sister. She sometimes has trouble paying attention to other people's feelings and tends to listen more with her head than her heart.

Luci is incredibly creative, sometimes considering herself to be too creative. She loves sketching her ideas. She is also incredibly determined and quite smart, as seen in her taking part in the essay contest to get into Space Camp for several years before finally winning with a paper on space rocks, which she has an interest in. 

Luciana and her family pull into the Space Camp parking lot, as Luci starts to point out all the rockets. Luci has been preparing for Space Camp for weeks, in the hopes that she can become the first astronaut on Mars. She takes her rolling suitcase herself, as astronauts don't need their parents to carry their stuff.

In February 2018 there was a huge Luciana event at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Al.  We got to meet 2 female astronauts. More about that on a future post.