Mandla Maseko

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mandla Maseko
Occupation	Aviator
Date Of Birth	Aug 27, 1988(1988-08-27)
Age	36
Date Of Death	July 6, 2019, Pretoria, South Africa
Birthplace	Soshanguve
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Gauteng
Horoscope	Virgo

Mandla Maseko Biography

Mandla Maseko is one of the most popular and richest Aviator who was born on August 27, 1988 in Soshanguve, Gauteng, South Africa.

Mandla Maseko (27 August 1988 – 6 July 2019) was a South African aviator, who aimed to be the first black African in space.

In 2013 he was one of 23 winners out of a million entrants to a competition by the Axe Apollo Space Academy to attend a US space academy, in order to be the first black African in space. He was nicknamed “Afronaut” and “Spaceboy”. 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 on board a XCOR Lynx Mark II that was planned to take place in 2015. However, the flight did not happen as XCOR Aerospace went bankrupt in

2017. He would have been the third South African in space, after Mark Shuttleworth in 2002 and Mike Melvill in 2004.

Mandla Maseko Net Worth

Mandla Maseko is one of the richest Aviator from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mandla Maseko 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was born in Soshanguve, north Pretoria, on 27 August 1988 to an auto tool maker and a school cleaner. He was a candidate officer of the South African Air Force, as well as a private pilot, a DJ, and a biker.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Mandla Maseko Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Manish Ranked on the list of most popular Aviator. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Mandla Maseko celebrates birthday on August 27 of every year.

Did Mandla Maseko go to space?

Mandla Maseko
Known for| Selection in the Axe Apollo Space Academy; Would have been the first Black African in space.
Military career
Allegiance| South Africa
Service/branch| South African Air Force

Is Mandla Maseko dead?

July 6, 2019

Who is the South African astronaut?

The story of Maseko as the first black South African* astronaut (or “afronaut” as he called himself) began in 2013 when he entered the Lynx Apollo Space Academy competition. The worldwide competition was a promotional campaign with Axe body spray that selected 23 people to become astronauts.

Who was the first South African on the moon?

Mark Shuttleworth
Born| Mark Richard Shuttleworth 18 September 1973 Welkom, Free State, South Africa
Nationality| South African-British
Occupation| Entrepreneur
Space career

Who is the first African to go to space?

Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8, he became the first African American in space as well as the second person of African ancestry in space, after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez. Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.