Priorities please.

[Georgesoros]

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Priorities can deviate from the norm.
Middle class first!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/eyeing-stars-ethiopias-space-programme-042820172.html

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Perched on the top of the 3,200-metre (10,500-foot) high Mount Entoto, two metal domes house telescopes, each a metre in diameter.

Operational for only a few months, the specialized equipment -- the first in eastern Africa -- has propelled Ethiopia into an elite club of African countries to have embarked on a space programme.

It appears they are giving the meaning of a space program a very broad definition.  Because they have an observatory, they have a space program.  By that definition, I too have a space program on my deck. 

That said, I support Africans employing technology, even the expensive variety, to solve real problems; but also to learn more about the world.  I see it as no different from an investment in education.

[RV Pundit]

Priorities are hard to define. This is good start for Ethiopia sciences. Scientist interested in that kind of science cannot be told to wait until every Ethiopia kid has 3 square meals...the country too...cannot to do that. Even USA has gazillion of issues to deal with, but still NASA get a sizeable budget.