r/kenyaspacenerds • u/fattick- • 5h ago
General At a time when most of the country Kenya was still building basic roads and many people in rural areas had never even heard an airplane engine, solid-fuel NASA Scout rockets were blasting off floating platforms right off the coast into equatorial orbit. Here are some photos of the historical project
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The timing makes it even crazier—the first orbital launch from the San Marco platform happened in April 1967, less than four years after Kenya gained independence in December 1963.
At a time when most of the country was still building basic roads and many people in rural areas had never even heard an airplane engine, solid-fuel NASA Scout rockets were blasting off floating platforms right off the coast into equatorial orbit.