Blue Springs girl sells lemonade to fund space camp dream

KSHB 41 reporter Claire Bradshaw covers eastern Jackson County, including Blue Springs and Independence. Share your story idea with Claire.

An 11-year-old Blue Springs girl is turning lemons into rocket fuel as she prepares for the adventure of a lifetime at NASA’s Space Camp.

Ezri Henry has spent the past year running a lemonade stand on Gingerbread Lane, raising money to attend space camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center museum in Huntsville, Alabama.

“We found an astronaut on Instagram,” said Ezri Henry. “My mom commented like that, I want to be an astronaut when I grow up and she said to start at space camp.”…

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