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