Uganda Space Program - Idi Amin's Program

Idi Amin's Program

Shortly after coming to power in 1971, President Idi Amin announced an impossibly optimistic human spaceflight program, that never progressed beyond an attempt at astronaut training on an obstacle course made up of used automobile tires. In June 1999, this effort received dubious recognition as one of the Time 100 magazine feature's "Worst Ideas of the Century".

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