NASA Essay semifinalist - Lilliana Breitenbach

Lilliana Breitenbach, 9, of North Conway has wanted to be an astronaut since she was 3. (COURTESY PHOTO)

CONWAY — Young Lilly Breitenbach has written an essay that’s out of this world, and one day she hopes to follow it into outer space.

Lilly, 9, of North Conway and a fourth-grader at John H. Fuller Elementary School, is one of 155 semifinalists from a field of 14,000 in the NASA and Future Engineers Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest, a national competition that asked K-12 students to imagine leading a one-week expedition at the moon’s South Pole.

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Lilliana Breitenbach displays part of a barracuda fish's jaw bone she discovered on the beach in Scarborough, Maine. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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