太空旅客幸運(yùn)兒，在摩托車事故中喪生

太空旅客幸運(yùn)兒在摩托車事故中喪生

South African Mandla Maseko - also known as Spaceboy and Afronaut - beat a million people to win a seat on a sub-orbital trip sponsored by the Axe Apollo Space Academy. It would have made him the first black African in space.

南非宇航員曼德拉·馬塞科(Mandla Maseko)擊敗了100萬人，贏得了由埃克斯·阿波羅太空學(xué)院(Axe Apollo Space Academy)贊助的亞軌道旅行的席位，他本來有望成為第一個(gè)進(jìn)入太空的非洲黑人。

"It is with deep sadness that the Maseko family confirms that Mandla Maseko tragically passed away in a bike accident last night, July 6 2019," a family spokesperson said in a media release on Sunday (local time).

當(dāng)?shù)貢r(shí)間周日，馬塞科一家在一份新聞稿中表示:“馬塞科一家懷著深深的悲痛向大家證實(shí)，曼拉·馬塞科于2019年7月6日晚在一場摩托車事故中不幸去世。”

"Maseko will be sorely missed. May Mandla Maseko's kind and beautiful soul rest in eternal peace."

“馬塞科將被深深地懷念。愿曼德拉·馬塞科善良美麗的靈魂永遠(yuǎn)安息。”

Maseko born in the Soshanguve township near Pretoria, the son of a school cleaner and auto tool maker. The part-time DJ's win was a source of national pride and made him a hero to young people in Africa.

馬塞科出生在比勒陀利亞附近的索尚古夫鎮(zhèn)，父親是一名學(xué)校清潔工和汽車工具制造商。這位兼職DJ的勝利，使他成為非洲年輕人的英雄，是民族自豪感的源泉。

"I wanted to do something that will motivate and inspire the youth of South Africa and Africa as a whole, and hopefully to some extent, the youth worldwide and show that it doesn't matter what background you come from, you can have whatever you want as long as you put hard work and determination into it," he told the BBC in January.

“我想做一些能激勵(lì)和鼓舞整個(gè)南非和非洲青年的事情，希望在某種程度上能激勵(lì)和鼓舞全世界的青年，無論你來自什么背景，只要你努力工作和有決心，你就可以擁有你想要的任何東西。”一月份他在接受BBC采訪時(shí)表示。

His death has left South Africa in mourning, and social media has been filled with tributes for Maseko.

他的去世讓南非舉國哀悼，社交媒體上也充滿了對馬塞科的悼念。

"A testimony that our dreams are valid regardless of how far fetched they seem," one person wrote on Twitter.

一位網(wǎng)友在推特上寫道:“這證明了我們的夢想是正確的，不管它看起來多么遙遠(yuǎn)。”

"#RIPMandlaMaseko #RIPAfronaut you're now in #PlanetHeaven, your final destination."

“你現(xiàn)到達(dá)了你的最終目的地——天堂機(jī)場。”