How important is space travel for Africa?
"If not now, then when? And if you don\u2019t do it, who else will?\u201d
Those are the two questions Sara Sabry suggests all woman ask themselves when they\u2019re thinking through a big move\u2026 and finding they don\u2019t have the confidence to follow it through.
And she should know. The Egyptian mechanical and biomedical engineer was the first African woman in space when she blasted off in Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepherd rocket in 2022.\n \nShe\u2019s the founder of Deep Space Initiative, an organisation with the mission to make space and the study of space more accessible\u2013 and she dreams of one day being part of a community living on the moon and eventually \u2018retiring on Mars\u2019.
But is space travel and research really something for Africa to invest in when there are so many other priorities?
Alan Kasujja hears her thoughts.