Twenty years after Mark Shuttleworth made history as the first ‘afronaut’, Africa has a burgeoning space science industry.
Sure, the SA Radio Astronomy Observatory did help enable communications for Nasa’s 1969 moon landing — but it would take another 30-odd years before the first real afronaut, local IT billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, blasted into low earth orbit...If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.
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