The Afronauts

• 📅Sat 19 Dec 2026
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• 🎫Free entry

**The Afronauts** is an artistic work inspired by the true story of Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, a Zambian schoolteacher who in the 1960s attempted to launch his country's space program—training a team of amateur astronauts (including two young women and an "astrocat")—in the hopes of beating the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in the