Afronauts: A fantastical journey
A Spanish photojournalist conjures up an imagined series of what a Zambian space mission might have looked like in her book The Afronauts.
Inspired by a Zambian, who, in the 1960s wanted his country to overtake the US and the Soviet Union in the space race, Christina de Middel explores what might have been.
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