Nigeria: Nation Aims To Put Africans In Space

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The cited publication points to yet another nation becoming interested in the valuable frontier of outer space.

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Nigeria really does have a space agency. The west African nation’s National Space Research and Development Agency is already celebrating its 10th anniversary. And as America and Europe’s space agencies set their sights on joint exploration of Mars, Nigeria has big plans of its own: It wants to send a Nigerian up into space in 2015, making Nigeria home to the first black African astronaut.

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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/nigeria/091029/nigeria-space-agency

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