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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.

Kennedy, in his first State of the Union address, accelerates the space program and sets as a goal a moon landing within the decade. July 21: American astronaut Gus Grissom's sub-orbital flight is ...

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 ... space,” she said. “Not necessarily as an ...

FORT SMITH -- The first African-American woman to go to outer space, Mae Jemison, said she ventured beyond the earth ...