by any measure, mark shuttleworth has had an extraordinary career.oray into entrepreneurship as a student in cape town in 1996, when he founded a cutting edge internet security firm. that proved such a success that it was bought by us tech giant verisign. the proceeds of that enabled him to set up the ubuntu operating system, which is free to all softwar. but his ambitions reaches further than tech — he's the first african in space, afterjoining the international space station in 2002. mark shuttleworth is with us now. good morning, welcome to the programme. let's start with the space element. actually, that came first, 27 years old. incredible, going to the international space station, tell us all about it. i've a lwa ys station, tell us all about it. i've always been fascinated by exploration of all kinds. the universe out there represents extraordinary opportunity and in many senses the future for all of us. i had a sense that the space programmes in the us and russia were opening up. i had the great privilege of spending almost a year in russia,