It will be a first for Africa: One innovative step by the North-West University (NWU) and one giant leap by the continent. Knowledge of how microorganisms, plants, animals and ecological combinations react in space and on the Moon and Mars is required. Africa has many harsh conditions that harbour organisms that may be candidates for space flight and colonisation on the Moon and Mars. We have the expertise at the NWU to conduct research to facilitate long space flights and the future colonisation of the Moon and Mars. “We sit at the bottom of Africa, largely removed from the body of space researchers in Europe and America.
