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Malindi space centre that few Kenyans know about

Satellite dishes at Luigi Broglio Space Center popularly known as San Marco at Ngomeni village in Magarini Sub County, Kilifi County. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard].

Months after Jomo Kenyatta became Kenya’s prime minister in 1963, a group of Italian scientists walked into his office with bundles of documents.

Their mission was to convince Kenyatta to sign a pact to allow Italy to establish a space centre at the remote village of Ngomeni in Magarini constituency in Kilifi.

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