AIDS (Space Program)

Overview
Africa: International Destination - Space, or later, Africa Into Deep-Space, was an African-based aeronautics and space travel research company based in Lusaka, Zambia, but acted domestically over the continent of Africa. Founded in 1960 by Zambian resistance member, Edward Makuka Nkoloso, as a means of reaching "galactic" goals for Africa as a whole. Nkoloso would base AIDS's first goal in that of reaching Mars by 1969. As per later seen in the 1970's as an unfit goal, they would attempt more logical feats such as observing the Moon and the Sun. As an attempts of "keeping moral high," the name would be changed to Africa Into Deep-Space, as a proclaimed way of keeping the idea that the group would eventually reach space-travel levels of technology. AIDS, however, was notoriously known for being under-budget, thus using extremely primal (even for the 20th century) ways of observing constellations and celestial objects. In 2017, conglomerate Afrika Tek, would purchase AIDS, and it would be transferred into the newer agency, the African Space Program, which operates as a branch of Afrika Tek itself.

Personality
Personnel belonging to AIDS mainly comprised of local scholars, astronomers, and "engineers", who in return would be commanded by elected chieftains who acted as supervisors. Typically, there would be only three of these chieftains at a time who would oversee all ground-action. Another duty of chieftains was to act as a council, and make executive decisions for AIDS. Many, if not all, staff members were recruited locally, or from villages around neighboring countries to Zambia. This in turn served as quick yet effective method of gaining traction, however no great contributions to the science field of astronomy or aeronautics. Despite this, they have created a database for all celestial bodies and planets explored and documented. It leads to no question in which why "Earth" is listed as the only documented planet in the AIDS database.