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- 23 de Ene, 2015
In 1960, Edward Makuka Nkoloso, the founder of the Zambia National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy--Which I'm going to just refer to as NIGSA because fuck that-- had plans to send 12 men, a 17 year-old girl and two cats to the moon. He also planned to send missionaries to Mars, in order to convert the "savage Martians" to Christianity. The moon project was subsequently canceled when the girl became pregnant because of course she did welcome to Zambia. The latter was probably canceled because Nkoloso didn't realize Martians weren't real.
As part of NIGSA's programs, Nkoloso set up a make-shift facility on an abandoned farm, built some shitty rocket out of aluminum and copper, and started a training program for his astronauts, which he himself dubbed "Afronauts" and proceeded to shove them into barrels and roll them down hills, because this would "train the men in the feeling of weightlessness and re-entry." They also used tire swings to the same affect.
Suffice it to say, UNESCO was not interested in funding his program, nor were any foreign investors, and by the mid 1960s the government of Zambia decided that it's probably for the best to distance themselves from the Afronauts and the crazy man in the cape that kept kicking them down hills in a barrel.
