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What next after privatisation of Space sector?

Space Shuttle at launch. Shuttle program ended in 2011 with private investors like Elon Musk filling the void.

One of the most memorable moments of my undergraduate studies was not CATS, assignments or pledging. It was meeting one of the astronauts who landed on the moon, Charles Duke Jr. He had come to Kenya, not as an astronaut but as a preacher.

He showed us a video of their trip to the moon, a memorable experience. Earlier in my A level physics exam, I recall a question on calculating the escape velocity of a satellite. Escape velocity is the lowest speed the satellite must travel to escape from Earth’s or any other massive body’s gravitational pull.

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