A group of young women in Kyrgyzstan is crowdfunding the country’s first satellite launch

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A group of young women in Kyrgyzstan is crowdfunding the country’s first satellite launchOf the world’s 195 countries, 72 have official space agencies, including Nigeria, Bangladesh, Peru, and Bolivia. Kyrgyzstan does not. So a group of young women decided to start their own. Kyrgyzstan is not an easy place to be female; it was described last year by Reuters as “a nation rife with domestic violence, child marriage…


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