Guion Bluford was one of the most influential people in the space community, becoming the first African American to fly in ... to his selection to the NASA astronaut program in 1978.

Ed Dwight Jr. was the first African American to be trained as an astronaut. In 1962, Dwight was selected for astronaut training at the urging of the Kennedy Administration.

That fabled astronaut breeding ground ... It wasn't until 1983 that the first African American, Guion Bluford, reached space. But two decades earlier, Dwight found himself at a fulcrum of 20th ...

Dr. Guion S. Bluford, Jr. was the first African-American astronaut to travel into space on the STS-8 mission on the Space Shuttle Challenger on Aug. 30, 1983. Bluford was a mission specialist ...

As the rockets fired against the Florida launch pad, Jemison was on her way to becoming the first woman of colour and first African-American woman ... that all of the astronauts were white men.

Bernard A. Harris Jr.'s historic spacewalk. On Feb. 9, 1995, Dr. Harris became the first African American astronaut to walk in space during the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-63. Since then ...

Founded in 1990, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame is part of the Heroes & Legends attraction at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Harris and Whitson's likenesses, etched in glass and mounted ...

It is named in honor of Dr. Ronald E. McNair, a pioneering African-American astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Dr. McNair came from a low-income background but went on ...

Bernard A. Harris Jr.’s historic spacewalk. On Feb. 9, 1995, Dr. Harris became the first African American astronaut to walk in space during the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-63. Since then, he ...