BBC News Takes on FUTA Alumnus Temidayo Oniosun on the EGUSI IN SPACE Research Nigerian scientist and founder of Space in Africa, Dr Temidayo Oniosun, made history in July as the first person to send an African crop to space. Dr Oniosun sent some egusi seeds, a species of melon seeds indigenous to West Africa, to space to study the behaviour of the seeds in microgravity. He sourced the egusi seeds from Oyo State, south-west Nigeria, and hopes the study of the seeds will also contribute to tackli