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A 14-year-old who applied to NASA, was turned down. Instead, she ended up cleaning a space toilet on work experience in Leicester. She now heads Mars exploration studies at the European Space Agency
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More than two decades later, Parfitt, now 42, leads Mars exploration studies at the European Space Agency.
The space toilet gets the headline.
“One of those was a space toilet, which I had never seen before and I helped to unpack it,” she recalled.
Real space work turns out to be full of that.
Closing thoughtsIt would be easy to run this as a joke with a nice payoff: from cleaning a space toilet to running Mars studies.