Carla was told she couldn’t be a mom. At 22, living with Down syndrome, she raised her daughter Lena alone.
She read bedtime stories, taped math tables to the fridge, and saved every penny for science kits.
Her hard work paid off. Lena won science fairs, graduated top of her class in aerospace engineering, and now works at NASA.
On her first day, she brought Carla. “Your daughter is one of the brightest minds we’ve seen,” said the director. Carla smiled through tears: “I always knew she’d reach the stars.”
Every photo Lena sends from space carries a constant: a picture of her mother, cradling her as a baby—a reminder that love can launch dreams farther than anyone imagined.
