Twenty-five-year-old South African DJ Mandla Maseko has been chosen as one of 23 people who will get to go to space! Maseko, a _________ African, can't wait to become the first black South African to go to _________!

He and 22 others were some of over one million who _________the Lynx Apollo Space Academy competition to win a ticket to space. When he was _________ why he wanted to go to space, Maseko's answer was _________, "want to fight against the rules of gravity(引力)."

He will start to do so on a Lynx mark II space ship in 2015, not only fighting against gravity but also realising his childhood _________ of becoming an astronaut when he grew up.

"We blacks also _________ with dreams. You dreamed of being a policeman or a teacher but you know you won't get as far as a pilot or an astronaut. Then I went to the space camp and I told _________that I could be an astronaut," said Maseko.

During the first week of December, Maseko, two other South Africans, _________more than 100 international contestants(选手) went to the space camp in Orlando, Florida to test if they are _________ enough to go to space.

Maseko knows there is a long way to go before he finally goes into space. "I'll be the first black South African and the first black African to go into space. When I think of the firsts, the first black presidents—Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, I tell myself to try my best.”