{"id":883,"date":"2015-11-03T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/rocket-knack-in-the-congo-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:29:22","slug":"rocket-knack-in-the-congo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/rocket-knack-in-the-congo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Knack in the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ground control for Mr. Keka\u2019s space program is a shed with a tin roof. Inside are old computers and televisions.\" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BN-KX560_CONGOR_M_20151023200101-1.jpg\" data-in-at4units-src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BN-KX560_CONGOR_P_20151023200101-1.jpg\" data-in-base-src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BN-KX560_CONGOR_P_20151023200101-1.jpg\" data-intent=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BN-KX560_CONGOR_P_20151023200101-1.jpg\" height=\"266\" title=\"Ground control for Mr. Keka\u2019s space program is a shed with a tin roof. Inside...\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p> <strong>This guy clearly has a rocketry version of The Knack. Busted by the police for a match-stick rocket at age 17, Jean Patrice stuck with his dreams of a Congolese space program. Years later, when the rat flying in one of his rockets crashed and burned, he declared that the varmint had &#8220;died for science.&#8221; Indeed he did. That is what I said about the lizards and mice killed in the payload chamber of my Astron X-Ray Estes rocket during the late 1960&#8217;s. A moment of silence please&#8230; <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Imagine how difficult it would be to make any progress on something like this in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. <\/strong><strong>Godspeed Jean-Patrice! <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/one-africans-personal-space-race-turns-vermin-into-astronauts-1446239060\"><strong>http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/one-africans-personal-space-race-turns-vermin-into-astronauts-1446239060<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy clearly has a rocketry version of The Knack. Busted by the police for a match-stick rocket at age 17, Jean Patrice stuck with his dreams of a Congolese space program. Years later, when the rat flying in one of his rockets crashed and burned, he declared that the varmint had &#8220;died for science.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/rocket-knack-in-the-congo-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rocket Knack in the Congo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}