Meet university students behind Kenya’s budding space race

Jeff Ayako, a student at Kenyatta University shows off a computer model of the KU CUBE that will be launched into space this August [Peter Muiruri, Standard]

In the last two weeks, millions watched as billionaire businessmen Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos blasted their way into space.

Among those watching the developments were eight Kenyatta University students who, if all goes to plan, intend to launch a satellite into space this August.