The Afronauts
Publisher: [Spain] : This Book is True, [2019]Manufacturer: Turkey : Ofset Yapimevi.Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Anniversary editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 24 cmISBN:- 9788409108329
- 8409108321
- TL789.8 .Z33 2019
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Special Collection | Whitecliffe Library Staff office | Special Collection | TR 647 MID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Special Collection-Library Use Only | Enclosed within an elastic band | 0013061 |
Title from spine.
Publication information from colophon.
Photobook by Cristina De Middel inspired by the short-lived Zambia space program started by school teacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso in 1964.
Facsimiles include letters, photographs depicting aspects of the space program, and a newspaper article.
In 1964 a Zambian science teacher named Edwuard Makuka decided to train the first African crew to travel to the moon. His plan was to use an alluminium rocket to put a woman, two cats and a missionary into Space. First the moon, then Mars, using a catapult system. He founded the Zambia National Academy of Science, Space Research and Astronomical Research to start training his Afronauts in his headquarters located only 20 miles from Lusaka. “Afronauts is based on the documentation of an impossible dream that only lives in the pictures. I started from a real fact that took place 50 years ago and rebuilt the documents adapting them to my personal imagery." -- From www.lademiddel.com/