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Someone Built A Rocketship In Their Garden And Flew To Mars. Now She’s Live-Tweeting The Experience.

She is Evghenia, first on Mars!

by Oscar Schwartz  15 August 2014

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You may not know this, but on August 2, 2014 a woman called Evghenia became the first human to touch down on Mars.

She did this without help from NASA, or any other nation for that matter.

So how did she get there? Well, it’s quite simple really:

Since arriving on Mars, Evghenia has designed herself a space suit out of tin foil, urinated on the red sands of Mars, tried to plant a lemon tree, slept one night in a cave, and has tragically realised that she is going to run out of water in a year’s time.

Evghenia’s adventure has been written about by Jezebel and the Daily Dot. The comments sections in the articles provide some golden Internet moments. People are actually debating whether Evghenia truly built a rocketship and flew to Mars.

Of course she did! For she is Evghenia, first on Mars.

Evghenia on Mars feels like a moment of good news while planet Earth goes to the dogs.

Follow Evghenia on Twitter here.