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. He is in good humor, but wants to come home. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. His other Soviet crewmembers returned to Earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) Bakare Tunde, Astronautics Project Manager Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Homeĭr. Thinking this was just a typical (albeit more creative) scam letter, the publication posted it on its website and it quickly went viral. It’s assumed that in order to do this, the recipient would have to front some money first. Bakare was offering the letter’s recipient three million dollars if the recipient would allow him to transfer a large sum of money that would be used to bring his cousin back. A man named Bakare Tunde was claiming to be the cousin of Air Force Major Abacha Tunde, a Nigerian astronaut abandoned in space. Last year, an online publication received a most peculiar 419 Nigerian scam letter. Quite a different reaction compared to the one in the science fiction blockbuster novel and film The Martian. (the private spaceflight company he was working for) knew he was alive, it’s only with the exposure brought by this letter that plans are being made to bring him back. There actually is a Nigerian man stuck out there on a space station, he’s been stuck there for fourteen years and after recent events, he’s probably not ok. It turns out the scam letter was not all a scam.

Nigerian Astronaut Really is Lost in Space

Lagoon by nnedi okorafor