Africa2Moon

FSDA & Africa2Moon Update Newsletter touching on our activities this year so far

It's time for launch! 🚀

Not to the lunar south pole just yet… but we’re over the Moon to announce that our new website is live this week 🚀🌓🌟🥳

A huge thank you to the stellar Juizi Web Development team for the fantastic work in bringing it to life.

Below is the link, where you can learn more about the Foundation for Space Development Africa leading the Africa2Moon mission itself, and the other aspirational programmes on our agenda, including the African Astronaut Programme.

is the first all-African space exploration mission, fueled by collaboration, to demonstrate new technology, do science not possible from Earth, and to inspire the next generation of African explorers and dreamers.

Foundation for Space Development Africa Welcome to an African future driven by exploration and innovation

Today I had the opportunity to visit the team at the Aerospace Systems Research Institute (ASRI), based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Discipline of Mechanical Engineering. They are an institute focused on the design, manufacture and testing of rocket propulsion and launch vehicle technologies.

Their work is driving change for the industry that will positively impact mindsets, costs and even the environment. It was amazing to have a tour of their extensive facilities and to meet the enthusiastic team of engineers, one of the teams in SA that is making space happen.

ASRI has produced a number of components for the Africa2Moon BALLS and we marvelled at the fact that something we built together, will be on the Moon!

Thank you Jean Pitot, Nino Wunderlin and the team for your support!



Foundation for Space Development

Our own Dr Adriana Marais 🚀

On this week’s "Good Things with Brent Lindeque", we sit down with Dr Adriana Marais… and it’s a conversation that stretches far beyond borders, beyond limits and even beyond Earth itself.

Adriana is one of the most fascinating humans I have ever met. We first crossed paths years ago when we shared a stage together, chatting backstage before our keynotes. I went on first and then watched as she took to the stage… she left me completely in awe.

A woman. A South African. A human… who was willing (and selected) to leave Earth for Mars. Forever.

So much has changed since that moment. The Mars One Project may have come to an end but Adriana's plans didn’t. If anything, she expanded her vision, taking everything she had learned and building something even bigger, something deeply rooted in African innovation and possibility.

Our conversation is about her belief in possibility. Not just for herself but for all of us. For Africa. For the next generation of thinkers, dreamers and explorers who will take what feels impossible today and turn it into tomorrow’s reality.

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Get the full poddie here: https://www.goodthingsguy.com/people/adriana-marais-meet-the-south-african-scientist-taking-africa-to-the-moon/