"In a small apartment workshop in Rongai, just outside Nairobi, a self-taught innovator, Eugene Awimbo, is building detailed rocket and starship models by hand, using everyday materials to pursue his passion for aerospace engineering despite limited resources. Footage captured on Sunday shows Awimbo displaying his handcrafted rocket systems to children before heading outdoors to launch stomp and air-powered bottle rockets. “So this is a model of the starship. We have the engines over there. The first stage. The second stage. Flaps and grid fins. It's got 33 engines back there,” he explained, pointing to one of his scale replicas. He also showcases a heavy launch rocket system model complete with boosters, multiple stages and a payload section. “These are usually used for launching satellites, probes and people and cargo into space,” he said, describing the oxygen and methane delivery systems that feed into a combustion chamber to produce thrust. By day, Awimbo works in construction. By night, he transforms sheets of steel, aluminium and even cardboard into carefully measured spacecraft components. Without specialised machinery, every piece is built by hand. He says he spends around 75 percent of his income on materials for the models. “There are no machineries that are built to make parts. So every bit of what you see here is what I've built by hand,” he said. Awimbo, who studied up to high school level, founded Binguni Cosmic Park, 'Binguni' meaning heavens in Swahili, as a grassroots initiative to make space science accessible in Kenya. “Here in Africa, the activity or the space industry is still in its infancy and it is not being taken with leaps and strides. I thought it would be best if I create a park where people can come and interact with the models that are exact replicas of what we actually see out there,” he said. Awimbo added that he is now in discussions with the Kenya Space Agency, which he claimed has expressed interest in collaboration after reviewing his work. “The negativity is quite low,” Awimbo added. “There are people who think I’m crazy. There are people who think my dreams are too far-fetched [...] But I could say 85 percent of people think I’m doing a very good thing.” Although the need to balance his passion project with supporting his family, Awimbo envisions expanding Binguni Cosmic Park into a larger interactive science space through direct interaction."