Africa’s first moon landing may be within reach and pictures from the journey to be sent live to African schools.
If everything goes according to plan can African children soon get live images from space into the classroom. Foundation romutvikling, Cape Town, seeking namely $ 150,000 in funding for the project Africa2Moon, where the goal is to send an unmanned vessel on Africa’s first moon mission, writes Reuters.
– We hope the project will keep skilled engineers and researchers in Africa and inspire other students and researchers, says managing director of the company and head of the project, Jonathan Weltman, news agency.
The team plans to send a robot in the journey that will send live images to the African schools.
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Exciting, unique and bold
– This is a very exciting project and a unique way to arouse interest in science, research and technology in Africa, says Pål Brekke, senior advisor at the Norwegian Space Centre to ABC News.
He seems 150.000 dollars sounds like a small sum and think it is manageable if they get much publicity about the case.
– Maybe there is something a lot of money that can imagine to get their name associated with this.There is nevertheless a courageous project. If they succeed, it will give the country the pride that “we” did it only major space nations have done previously, he said.
He also believes usefulness will be great even if they fail to get the sum.
– The project will be largely focused until the launch and be very valuable to increase interest space and technology, he said.
He believes, moreover, that the project may inspire more people to choose such subjects and ends up as scientists or engineers who can contribute to the country’s further development.
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Focusing the heights
Earlier, China, USA and Russia been a leader in space exploration, but now want Africans to catch up.
– Africa has great resources and lots of smart people with good education. That is the main resources you need for a project like this. There are ideas that get you to the moon, says lunar expert at Space Sciences Lab at the Foundation for Space Research, Rene Laufer to Reuters,.
According to news agency, the project has partnered with the United Nations Foundation “Giving tuesday» initiative for economic support. But they still hope public donations will ensure that they can complete the exciting journey.
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