Sisters Lauren and Stephanie are reaching for the celebs – and hoping to be the primary twins in orbit.
The pair have received an opportunity to research house in the US.
The 17-year-olds will take planetary science on the prestigious Harvard College summer time college.
However the siblings, who have been in foster care till they have been six, are each dreaming of changing into astronauts.
Stephanie – whose hero is British astronaut Tim Peake – mentioned: “It will be wonderful to be an astronaut though so few individuals get the possibility it's most likely unrealistic.
“We each need careers in house although, we're obsessed.”
The twins, from Lanarkshire, wish to work for the European Area Company or NASA and are on their approach having been accepted to check physics at college.
The pair have been raised by their gran since they left foster care.
Stephanie added: “We have been fortunate as a result of some siblings in care are separated and I can’t think about rising up aside from my sisters, with out the safety of figuring out they have been there. I do assume it's flawed to separate siblings in care.”
The placement in Massachusetts has been organised and funded by voluntary organisation Who Cares? Scotland and a part of the prices will come from South Lanarkshire Council.
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Lauren discovered the information first and had a couple of minutes of nerves earlier than Stephanie additionally bought the decision.
Lauren mentioned: “Our gran was good at pushing us academically and she or he taught us to seize alternatives once they current themselves. She purchased us a lot of books and pushed us to learn. ”
The twins additionally received Nuffield sponsored analysis placements and Stephanie was assigned to famend Spanish physicist Professor Javier Martín-Torres, who leads the Planetary Sciences Group at Aberdeen College.
Lauren mentioned: “It was among the finest issues that ever occurred to me in my entire life. He was unbelievable.”
Who Cares? Scotland has been concerned with the Harvard Summer time Faculty Programme for 12 years and can ship 4 college students this 12 months.
Its chief government Louise Hunter mentioned Harvard “helps care skilled individuals uncover simply how a lot they're able to.”
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