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Will Mark Shuttleworth be the first African to be sent to space?

Johannesburg, South Africa - Debate to thrill his compatriots

Few days before Mark Shuttleworth will be sent on orbit, readers of a South African weekly magazine are witnessing the quarrel between those who state the 29-year-old South African billionaire to be the first African to reach space and others who assert, on the opposite, that primacy should be addressed to Patrick Baudry, a Cameroun citizen with French extraction. Mark Shuttleworth, quarrel a part,...

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Rome, Italy, 04/22/2002 13:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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