{"id":2869,"date":"2019-07-08T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2019-07-08T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:13:08","slug":"the-afronaut-mandla-maseko-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/website_b1ce9d46\/the-afronaut-mandla-maseko-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Afronaut, Mandla Maseko, is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa is joined by the rest of the world in mourning\nMandla Maseko, who would have been the first black African in space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandla Maseko, also known as \u2018\u2019Spaceboy\u2019 or the Afronaut, died in a motorbike accident that occurred on Saturday, according to a statement issued by his family. He was 30. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5506089157017573\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1517254432\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>He had secured the one in a million chance to travel to\nouter space after responding to a promotion that was being run by AXE, a\nsubsidiary of the international conglomerate Unilever. The promo was to give 23\nseats on a suborbital plane built by the American company XCOR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/africaglobalnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AXE-Apollo-Space-Academy-600.jpg?w=696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A promotional poster for the Axe Apollo pace Academy\" class=\"wp-image-2871\"\/><figcaption>This was the promotion that gave Maseko the opportunity to go to space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions applied. Elimination activities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-25844863\">included<\/a> taking\nparticipants on loop the loop plane manoeuvres, quickly landing the plane and\ngiving them written tests to answer. Maseko made it to the top 3, and was\nshortlisted to go to Orlando, the over 100 other participants from other\nnations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They spent a gruelling week there, doing more aptitude\ntests, combat training, and zero-gravity flights. At the end of the week, the\nfinal 23 were announced, and Spaceboy had secured a seat that would otherwise\nhave cost him some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/23866-axe-apollo-space-academy-spaceflight-winners.html\">$100,000<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trip was to be done in 2015, and Maseko already knew what to do: take along a South African flag, a Ladysmith Black Mambazo song, play the national anthem, call home from space, and think of a powerful line to rival Neil Armstrong\u2019s \u201cone small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.\u201d Or just be memorable enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5506089157017573\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1517254432\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">XCOR<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>But it doesn\u2019t seem like they would have had the chance.\nXCOR Aerospace, the company commissioned by Unilever to fly the 23 to space,\nnever got around to building a working prototype for the Lynx, the suborbital\nplane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, a year after the aborted launch, XCOR was firing\nits staff, and in the following year, it filed for <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/xcor-aerospace-files-for-bankruptcy\/\">bankruptcy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if he never got to space, that Mandla Maseko, the son\nof a cleaner and a tool maker, the product of a Pretorian township, would beat\na million others for such a coveted spot was an inspiration to the everyday\npeople in South Africa\u2019s townships and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/africaglobalnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mandla-Maseko-bike.jpg?w=696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mandla Maseko standing next to his Yamaha superbike\" class=\"wp-image-2872\"\/><figcaption>Maseko has been described as an avid biker. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Africa Global News Publication <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is joined by the rest of the world in mourning Mandla Maseko, who would have been the first black African in space. 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