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Zambia was on their way to beat the US and Soviet Union in the space race.
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This man in the picture below is Edward Festus Mukuka, the founder of Zambian Academy of Science.
And that oil barrel he is graciously pointing at, is the space simulator they used for training “Afronauts”!
He would shove men into that barrel and push them down the precipice to make them feel weightless and used tire-swings for gravity trainings.
He would shove men into that barrel and push them down the precipice to make them feel weightless and used tire-swings for gravity trainings.
He planned to send a girl (17-year-old Matha Mwambwa) and two cats to the moon. Spreading Christianity among the primitive Martians was in his wishlist too and urged UNESCO to fund his mission € 7 million.
But all these dedicated efforts went in vain, as his trained Afronaut “Matha Mwambwa” became pregnant.
And her parents took her away.
And her parents took her away.
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