Susan Murabana bought a telescope in 2014 – and has been sharing it ever since. She and her partner, Chu Owen, cart it around Kenya to show children what stars look like up close.
In a country where few students have access to telescopes, one of the pair’s hopes is to convince young people that astronomy is a science for everyone – not just white men, whose names dominate its history. But the goals of The Travelling Telescope, as they call their organization, go beyond astronomy itself. “It’s about all the different things astronomy can teach,” Ms. Murabana says: math, engineering, even design. Most fundamentally, they want to inspire kids’ curiosity about the world around them.