KOLKATA: US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has denied an Indian teen girl's claim that she was selected for its prestigious Goddard Internship Program (GIP) under the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). However, the girl still sticks to her stand.

Eighteen-year-old suburban West Bengal resident Sataparna Mukherjee has attested to being the "youngest Indian to have been chosen for a NASA research project".

The resident of Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district claimed in an interview to IANS that the space agency had offered her a full scholarship to pursue graduation, post-graduation and PhD (as NASA faculty) in aerospace engineering at its "London Astrobiology Centre in Oxford University."

In an e-mail to IANS, a NASA official clarified: "We have no record of anyone by that name receiving an internship, scholarship or any form of academic or financial assistance from any NASA institute, center or program."

Further the official highlighted: "The program noted by multiple Indian media outlets does not exist."

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