CLAY COUNTY, Fla. — Following months of preparation, a Clay County student has an experiment heading to the international space station!

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Action News Jax had a likelihood to speak with that student’s father this afternoon who says he is proud of what his daughter has accomplished!

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“There is no describing how I really feel,” Michael Torkzad mentioned.

Torkzad’s 13-year-old daughter Celine who is a student at St. Johns Nation Day College is performing anything that not several persons her age can say they’ve completed

Flying one particular of her science experiments to outer space! She worked on the project with other students and it was all thanks to the four-H Youth Improvement System and Greater Orbits.

“Her group won the thought of getting an investigation completed on spirulina,” Torkzad mentioned.

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Torkzad tells me spirulina is an algae, and his daughter is flying it to space to see how it operates

“This algae is pretty higher and wealthy in protein. so the thought is that how do we sustain reside protein for astronauts why they are in space,” Torkzad mentioned.

Tonight, Torkzad told Action News Jax that he’s proud of the difficult perform the students place in to make this take place, and he’s excited about their future.

“The effect it has on a child’s life. Oh, appear you have to perform difficult and if you perform difficult, and you place your work into it you will reach anything,” Torkzad mentioned.

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Torkzad mentioned that he saw the rocket laugh from a hotel rooftop, and it will be a lifetime encounter.

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