A seven-year-old astronaut in training will become the first child ever to send something to the moon after impressing the world's leading space pioneers.

Elizabeth Norman is obsessed with space and staged the launch of a massive home-made Vulcan Centaur rocket from her garden earlier this year. Her enormous enthusiasm for all things lunar captured the attention of US experts currently prepping the real Vulcan Centaur for the first moon landing in nearly 50 years.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has a miniscule space left on an upcoming mission to send the first ever private pod to land on the lunar surface.

It can command a charge of $1,200,000 per kg.

But they've offered to take something belonging to 'Astro Liz' - and now a sticker carrying the name of her space blog will be part of the first ever lunar 'time capsule'.

Her family have even been invited to wave it goodbye on launch day in Florida, USA, at the end of 2021.

The schoolgirl is one of a handful of people in the world to include a personal item on the first ever mission of its kind.

Elizabeth said: "I can't wait to see a video of the capsule with my sticker on the moon taken by the lunar lander.

"Astrobotic is making my space dreams come true and I'm so excited to watch the launch - my friends are all excited for me.

"I love science and space because there is so much to learn and I love exploring and doing experiments."