Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya
Onu, says that Nigeria will launch its first
Astronaut into space before 2030. Onu said this
while speaking to a delegation from the Defence
Space Agency in Abuja yesterday March 24th.
“On or before 2030, we can do it with the
programme and infrastructure that we
have. Space technology is very important
to protect our national interest as we
already have satellite in space.
All the things that is needed is in the
budget that has just being passed and
from this year we will commence the
implementation of the programme that
we have and because of the importance
of space to the wellbeing of the nation,
we will work very hard to launch a
Nigerian astronaut before 2030“he said
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