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by bdchauvette 3998 days ago
Shortly after independence, Zambia also briefly had an unofficial space program:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/old-we...

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-almost-forgotten-zambia...

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I want to emphasize the word unofficial there - you never learn about this in the Zambian history curriculum.

It was just a bunch of crackpots playing at being astronauts.