Africa's space programme gets off the ground
10 July 2012 Updated at 00:36 ET
Africa's journey to space begins on the ground
Nigerian engineers worked on satellites, helped by foreign expertise
As the US space programme loses momentum with the retirement of the space shuttle, those of Ghana and Nigeria are just taking off.
Meredith Baker
BBC News
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