EXCLUSIVE — The Biden administration is spending tens of thousands of dollars on a new Space Camp program bringing teenagers in Libya to the United States so they can “experience being an astronaut,” the State Department told the Washington Examiner.

The program, which will see up to 20 students from the North African country attend Space Camp in August for one week in Huntsville, Alabama, is being run through the U.S. Embassy to Libya, which was evacuated and closed in 2014 due to violence in Tripoli just two years after attacks on U.S. government facilities in Benghazi. For its implementation, the State Department awarded $135,267 to Amideast, a charity in Washington, D.C., focused on creating “life-changing opportunities for education and cultural exchanges” between foreign countries and the United States, the agency said.