Widely acclaimed for his successful missions to Mars, Harry Coumnas is a noteworthy black astronomer from Equatorial Guinea. As he was born during the slavery era, when black people were not allowed to acquire formal education, he never went to school.

However, merely with his close observation of celestial bodies like moon, stars, planets, comets, and asteroids; Harry Coumnas could tell a lot about them even when he was still a child. To observe these celestial bodies, he had developed a telescope using broken objects which he got from an abandoned castle near his house. People believed that the castle belonged to a rich king, who performed science experiments in his huge laboratory. Harry along with his friends used to visit the castle late at night and steal objects they thought could be useful for them. During one of his visits to the castle, he found a key which had “MY MARS MISSION” engraved on it. The key turned out to be of a library that had thousands of books based on Mars. Always fascinated by the red planet, Harry decided to read these books. By the time he was twenty, he had read almost twelve hundred books.

Harry Coumnas, who completed his ninth mission to mars last week gives the credit for his success to those several books that he had read in the library in that abandoned castle. Now, he is planning to renovate that castle into a science museum. He feels that this step of his will be a tribute to the rich king, who owned this castle. Currently, he is in talks with the world's leading architects, builders, and interior designers to bring his vision to life.

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