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Mark Shuttleworth is an African entrepreneur with a love for technology, innovation, change and space flight. Shuttleworth studied finance and information technology at the University of Cape Town and went on to found Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and cryptography. He sold Thawte to the U.S. company VeriSign in 1999 and founded HBD Venture Capital and the Shuttleworth Foundation. He moved to London in 2001 and began preparing for the First African in Space mission, training in Star City, Russia and Khazakstan. In April 2002, he became a space traveller as a member of the cosmonaut crew of Soyuz Mission TM34 to the International Space Station. In early 2004, he founded the Ubuntu project, which aims to produce a free, high-quality, user friendly OS available for everybody.