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Mandla Maseko

  • Skill Category: DJ
  • Present Address: South Africa (Dead)
  • Country: South Africa
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Biography

Mandla Maseko (27 August 1988 – 6 July 2019) was a South African aviator, who aimed to be the first black South African in space. He was born in Soshanguve, north Pretoria,[1] to an auto tool maker and a school cleaner.[2] He was a candidate officer of the South African Air Force,[2] as well as a private pilot, a DJ, and a biker. He went to the Kennedy Space Center for a week to do tests, such as skydiving and a journey on a reduced-gravity aircraft, ahead of a planned one-hour suborbital flight[3] on board a XCOR Lynx Mark II[2] that was planned to take place in 2015. However, the flight did not happen as XCOR Aerospace went bankrupt in 2017.[3] He would have been the third South African in space, after Mark Shuttleworth in 2002 and Mike Melvill in 2004. He died on 6 July 2019 in a motorbike accident, aged 30.

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n 2013 he was one of 23 winners out of a million entrants to a competition[3] by the Axe Apollo Space Academy[4] to attend a US space academy, in order to be the first black South African in space. He was nicknamed “Afronaut” and “Spaceboy”.

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