Nova Scotia woman prepared for final frontier

Working 9 to 5 isn't for everyone. Kendra Christie answers the phone at her dad’s Shelburne County salvage yard but pines for life in a bubble, living and working on Mars as part of a colonization team. An existence on the red planet is now closer than ever for Christie, 29, who learned she had made the shortlist for an international space project that wants to send astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars.

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