The Travelling Telescope brings stars to students
May 12, 2021
4 minutes
Susan Murabana’s traveling telescope began with a simple revelation: we all have access to the sky.
We all see the same moon. We all look up at the same night sky splattered with stars.
At the same time, she knew, that access wasn’t created equal. Telescopes have been around for 400 years, but most children in Kenya, where Ms. Murabana is from, had never looked through one.
She thought she could change that.
In 2014, she and her partner bought a telescope and started carting it around Kenya to show kids what the stars looked like up close. Today, The Travelling
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