A Nigerian man, Freeman Osonuga has been
shortlisted as one of the lucky human beings to travel to space.
Osonuga, a Medicine and Surgery graduate from
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria was selected
through the Rising Star programme, which was launched at the One Young World
Summit 2014 in Dublin. The programme invited both One Young World ambassadors
and outstanding members of the public aged 18-30 to nominate themselves to take
on the trip of a lifetime.
If selected for the programme one will not only embark on a once
in a lifetime flight to space but will also be offered a three-year management
contract. He will be the first black African to fly to space. Osonuga is a 2015
WIRED Innovation fellow. He will be speaking live on stage at the WIRED 2015
conference in October in London. In late 2014, at the peak of the Ebola
epidemic in West Africa, he worked as a volunteer worked with the African Union
team of Ebola responders for 6 months in Sierra Leone.
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