Lost In Space

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Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home
Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)
Plot 555
Misau Street
PMB 437
Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA

Dear Mr. Sir,

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.

Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.

Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.

Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include downpayment in this financial quarter.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message via my direct number 234 (0) 9-234-2220 only.

Yours Sincerely, Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
[email protected]

National Space Research and Development Agency |

[seeandsee]

take the cash

[2MuchMark]

He should consider himself lucky. If he has been orbiting the earth for 15 years, he has aged slower than the rest of us. Essentially he is travelling into the future.

Time dilation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anyone know how to calculate this and take frame dragging into account too? Dynamo?

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damn he's been up there for a minute im suprised this hasn't been on the world news

[Sarn]

>Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home

[EddyTheDog]

This guy is wasting his talent - He could make a living writing fiction...

[SilentKnight]

"Dear Mr. Sir"














(don't fuckin' call me sir - I still work for a living)

[hottoddy]

"He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved."

So, he's been up there since 1989? Unless this is an email from 2003, he's going on 27 years now.

[hottoddy]

What do you know? The US pioneered this area. Here's a documentary on the Old Negro Space Program. Very interesting ...



The Old Negro Space Program - YouTube

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You would think maybe Trump will bail him out