Discovery: Outer space holds endless possibilities

International Space Station (ISS) crew of NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of European Space Agency leave for a pre-launch preparation at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan yesterday. Global interest in space exploration is intense, 50 years after the first landing on the moon. [Reuters]

We need to revive some traditions like showing visitors your old photo albums. We loved that as undergraduates, which gave one a glimpse into one’s past and personality. Instagram is more about your present only. 

Recently I was going through my old photos which I have never had time to digitise. One photo caught my attention, taken on the penultimate year to my graduation. Standing next to a group of my classmates and I was a mzungu, taller and more confident than all of us. His name was Charles Duke. Why would the photo matter now?