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Nigerian teen to take zero-gravity trip

by alaaron | September 21, 2006 at 11:29 am | 669 views | add comment | 0 recommendations
Nigerian teen Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them and does homework by candlelight.

On Saturday, Felix will soar above all that from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a special Boeing aircraft, becoming the first Nigerian to experience the weightlessness of space flight.

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