Kids aren't usually invited to this NASA operation center, but a 9-year-old child prodigy had scientists 'buzzing with excitement' during a private tour

David Balogun at NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

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• A child prodigy who wants to be an astrophysicist got a private tour of a NASA mission control center.
• David Balogun, 9, toured the James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center in Maryland.
• Scientists at the center "learned more than one thing from David," a spokesperson told Insider.