African Space Notes

[dewline]

Seems that South Africa and Nigeria are officially in the New Great Game:

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1347

http://www.space.gov.za/

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/nigeria/index.html

http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2007/10/nigerian_space

Should be interesting to see how these developments play out over the next few decades.

Comments

[black13.livejournal.com]

Does Nigeria need to go into space because they have already passed those inheritances on to everyone on Earth who will take them?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Didn't Wired already dispense with that joke?

*winces*