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Nasa Selection Tests
Once upon a time, a little girl who dreamed of being an astronaut.
Always very studious and hard-working behind her dreams, she always dreamed of the day she would enter NASA.
On a beautiful day, representatives of NASA arrived in the city that would recruit a person from every city in the world to go on a mission. Among his selection tests were: physical preparation, skill test and a theoretical test.
The little girl, was worried because she spent her whole life studying theories, she had never cared about practice. Soon, she knew that she had a challenge for the frenzy to achieve her dream.
Seeing the list of approved, saw that his great friend was also going to participate. She always went to sports, then thought about asking for her help with physical training and she would help in the theoretical part. Found her friend and made the offer, promptly she accepted and began training.
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An era of first stage or physical test, which the little girl was able to carry out the percussion with mastery and her friend as well. The second stage was a test, which she also managed to pass. A third and last test, was a test of abilities, survival, which she had more difficulties than the physical. It was a long and difficult test for her, but she managed to do it.
The result of the selection would not leave until the next day. It was difficult to sleep that night.
There was something unexpected in the result, two people had ranked.
Trying to get through the crowd, who was in front of the picture with the result, she saw the name of her friend and yours.
At that moment, she was sure, a great chapter had begun in her


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