KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Both Alex Mather and Vaneeza Rupani have always been fascinated by space and science, but they never could have imagined that one day they’d get to name a NASA spacecraft, reports News 6 partner Florida Today.Mather, who is 13 years old and a seventh-grader at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia, named the Mars Perseverance rover that will fly to space Thursday morning.
Rupani, who is 17 years old and a high school junior at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, Alabama, named the Ingenuity helicopter that will hitch a ride with Perseverance.“I came up with Ingenuity because I wanted to answer the question of how is it possible that people can do something as amazing as science on other.