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Scientist who cleaned space toilet on work experience now leading Mars exploration teams
But she never imagined her time at the National Space Centre in Leicester, when she was 14, would one day see her lead a team exploring future Mars missions.
Parfitt, who described her career as a "dream come true", now leads a team planning for the future human and robotic exploration of Mars at the European Space Agency.
During her time there, staff were planning and collecting artefacts for the opening of the country's flagship space science attraction - the National Space Centre.
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