Six30 Posted August 26, 2015 Posted August 26, 2015 Ethiopia to start their own space programme ..really.. That's some serious f**king wedge, I gather all the starving and poverty has all been sorted then, well done Sir Bob. Quote
Mr Fro Posted August 26, 2015 Posted August 26, 2015 Didn't pick that up in the DailFail did you? Bit old news. Quote
Fozzie Posted August 26, 2015 Posted August 26, 2015 http://sirius-c.ncat.edu/asn/country/ethiopia/esss.jpgFound this on the "ethiopian space society" page.They're a bit away from getting on the moon, but it's a space programme all the same. Quote
RantMachine Posted August 26, 2015 Posted August 26, 2015 Mohammed Alamoudi, an Ethiopian-Saudi businessman who is the country’s richest man, paid for the observatory through the Ethiopian Space Science Society (ESSS), which he set up in 2004 to promote astronomy. So it's privately funded, not government funded, and therefore has bugger all to do with DfID aid. Not that the sensationalist headline of the article conveys that message very well! Quote
XmisterIS Posted August 26, 2015 Posted August 26, 2015 Ethiopian space rocket:http://mykidcraft.com/images/rocketspacecardboard-tubetoy2732648212.jpgWe're going to button moon, with Mr Spoon ... Quote
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