Immanuel Gitamo, a Kenyan soldier in the US army working on billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX project, has come a long way from Kitale, Transzoia County, where he was born, overcoming adversity to achieve what only a few dream of. US Billionaire and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk FileTeachers at the local schools he attended allowed him to study for free, and in return, Gitamo helped with chores in the school. He later enrolled in a Ph.D. program to pursue astrophysics and was required to write a thesis and his choice was electric propulsion to space. “My dissertation was about electric propulsion. It is through this project that he met US Billionaire Elon Musk, a man he says, he admires a lot due to what he has accomplished.

Source: Daily Nation March 06, 2021 10:18 UTC