Imprint Shuttleworth

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Shuttleworth was an understudy at the University of Cape Town in 1995 when he established Thawte, a counseling firm that turned into a world chief in Internet security for electronic trade. He sold the firm in 1999 to the U.S.- based organization VeriSign and with his benefits established an investment firm and a philanthropic association committed to financing instruction activities in Africa.

In 2001, at an individual expense of $20 million, Shuttleworth purchased a seat on a Russian rocket and started the First African in Space venture. For almost a year he prepared in Star City, Russia, and in Kazakhstan for a mission on board a Soyuz case to the International Space Station (ISS). On April 25, 2002, Shuttleworth lifted off on Soyuz TM-34 with two cosmonauts, leader Yury Gidzenko of Russia and flight engineer Roberto Vittori of Italy, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and docked two days after the fact at the ISS. Shuttleworth went through eight days on board the space station, where he directed logical trials for South Africa. He got back to Earth on board Soyuz TM-33 on May 5, 2002.

After returning, Shuttleworth voyaged generally and talked about spaceflight to schoolchildren around the globe. He got back to his work in innovation and in 2004 established Ubuntu, a task that made work area and working framework programming with the expectation of complimentary conveyance to PC clients, with an uncommon spotlight on