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Um, Russia has never been to the moon. And maybe Africa should concentrate on building a reputable airline first. Just a suggestion.

I can't resist.

Mooolignons in spacaaaace!

Now that there is funny, I don't care who you are!

Airliner? How about just focusing on feeding their citizens...?

Why does the podium say EUROPEAN development Days?

There goes the neighborhood!

We're figuring out more ways to keep the black peoples of the world in perpetual poverty. Why do you ask?
/sarc

Geez, how about providing good food and clean water for your people? How about eradicating (or at least controlling and treating) the diseases that contribute to the shortest life expectancy on Earth? Better yet, how about doing something that creates opportunities for your people to rise up from the morass of sickness and hunger that they live in that is virtually unchanged from that of their ancestors 1000 years ago? Promote businesses that create jobs? Stop confiscating every scrap of wealth your citizens somehow still manage to scrape out and keeping for yourselves/giving it to politically connected friends?

Or, you could go to the moon. But if you do, then do your people (and the US taxpayers, for that matter) a favor - stay there, and don't ever come back.

wonderful 64 impalas in space.

Space is one cold mutha fucka.

"We must also go there and say: 'What are you people doing up here?'."

LOL

I'm no Jack Kennedy fan, but his "to the moon" speech was mo' better than Yoweri's.

Sorta like my dog. She's been chasin' cars and trucks up and down the road for years. I wonder what she's gonna do with it when she gets hold of it??
Same with this boy, he'll be wantin' to go to the moon and when he gets there, then what?

Maybe they should start with something not as technically challenging as space travel, say maybe......

'Washing their hands before AND after they go to the bathroom in their own DIRT HOLE in the ground!'

(jeez, when is God going to make up his mind whether he wants these people on this planet or not? Let's GO GOD! JESUS! )

Errrh....correction, The Russians HAVE been to the moon. Only in the form of a un-manned lander. So, ...technically they have been there but not in-person like the United States.

Also, let's not forget who was the first man in space....a Russian. Not an American. Henceforth, the "SPACE RACE BEGINS!"

Who is better qualified to search for 'black holes'?

Hahaha. How THAT'S really funny.

Great. Another funding program for the U.S. and the IMF. I doubt much funding will come from all-black businesses.

Even if it were possible for Africans to get to the moon on their own, the motivation to do so should be a little better than 'checking up on what the white man's been doin' up there'...

I think they might be taking their moonwalking steps a little too seriously. Or maybe they need to test some new machete techniques at 1/6g.
Anyway, I hope they try; this is the first African project I've heard of that may turn out to be worth the money.....I have to believe that in this case, a good time shall be had by all.

And BTW trolls, this isn't racist. I'd be laughing at any corrupt, dysfunctional, bankrupt, disease-ridden starving country/continent that wanted to suddenly go from campfires to cutting-edge for purely racist reasons.

someone needs to clean up all the trash the white man left behind!

I remember when saying that "we" should send blacks into space was RACIST. It suggested that "we" were trying to get rid of them!

The Space Negros,

a band from Boston in the 70's/80's. They did a cover of Iron Man. They feature former members of Mission of Burma Roger Miller and Clint Conley.

http://vinyljourney.blogspot.com/2005/02/space-negros.html

Russians landed on the moon? Considering no African made it to the even the Cape Islands before Europeans took 'em there....

Bet the North Koreans announce they are going next...

no African made it to what is now South Africa until after the white man settled there!!!

If he wants to know what we're doing up there, he might want to go here

The link didn't come through

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=public

In space, no one can hear you laugh.

What a tard, why doesnt he just ask one of these people?

GUION BLUFORD
Guion Bluford was the first African-American astronaut to orbit the Earth. He was born November 22, 1942, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was also a colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He flew as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger from August 30 to September 5, 1983.
This mission was called STS-8. It was the first night launch of a shuttle, as well as the first night landing.
Guion Bluford also flew on three other shuttle missions: STS-61A, STS-39, and STS-53. He is currently the vice president and general manager of an engineering company in Maryland.

MAE JEMISON
Dr. Mae C. Jemison was the first African-America woman in space. She flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour, on the STS-47 mission. This mission was launched on September 12, 1992.
Dr. Jemison was born October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama. She earned a a doctorate in medicine degree from Cornell University in 1981. She served as the Area Peace Corps Medical Officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia in West Africa.

BERNARD HARRIS JR.
Dr. Harris was the first African-American to walk in space. He accomplished this on the STS-63 mission, which was carried out February 2-11, 1995. Mission highlights included the rendezvous with the Russian Space Station, Mir, operation of a variety of investigations in the Spacehab module, and the deployment and retrieval of Spartan 204.

In addition, Dr. Harris was a mission specialist on the STS-55 mission in 1993.

Dr. Harris earned a doctorate in medicine from Texas Tech University School of Medicine in 1982.

M O O N spells Moon. M O O N spells Dumbass.

PS Watch out for the man in the jeans, denim jacket and cowboy boots who resembles Don Imus, he is a very bad man. In fact he is the son of the Devil, which is spelled M O O N.

Er...I think the 'tard was referring to Africans in a nationalistic sense; not to Americans confused by Jesse Jackson.

i honestly hope they attempt it, this should be fun to watch. Im picturing a giant bottle rocket type thing with a real long fuse.

I think it'd be funny if the African space team arrived on the moon and the first thing they see is one of those minstrel lawn statues.

In space one can hear you scream, 'Where d white women at?'

I'm certain that Africa is perfectly capable of acheiving the greatest of human endevors, however, they may want to concentrate on something a little closer to home first, such as, creating a stable socio-economic civilization resembling something other than the lost boys and Peter Pan. Oh wait, I didn't mean to use a white boy fable as my example, but I can't think of amy tales without them. Anyway it's wonderful to see such ambition. I say we cut off all support and let them stand without our interferance. I'm sure it won't take them more than a few years to catch up. But then we have a black president now, and whitie is going down here soon so he can just sit back and loot.

I understand that LT UURAH is SWAHILI

Please Go!!! Remember President Yoweri Museveni the weather is really nice up there, so don't bother with space suits, protective wear, or for that matter a pressurized space vehicle. Please go yourself a dictator, Errrrrr. President needs to be hands on…Hey take some friends too lots of them.

(Future candidate for the Darwin Awards)

Build a rocket that can reach the moon or so it can reach North America?

Levar Burton made it to space on Star Trek, not to mention reading rainbow.