Rongai's rocket man with Mars on his mind

Eugene Awimbo Crazy engineering D.I.Y company the first person to invent a rocket in Kenya and he demonstrated how it's work at is workshop and home in Rongai. PHOTO BY EDWARD KIPLIMO.

KENYA: As he assembles his tools of trade to build a rocket, Eugene Awimbo is optimistic that he will get into orbit one day.

Awimbo's dream to become a rocket scientist started at the age of five and today the 28-year-old from Ongata Rongai, Kajiado County has built rockets that are several metres tall.