The post Dr. Bernard Harris, The First African American To Walk In Space, Will Be Inducted Into The Astronaut Hall Of Fame ...
Setbacks aside, the Soviet Union was then far ahead of the USA in the space race, launching the first ... the International Space Station. American astronaut Vance Brand later said: We [the ...
he became an astronaut and served as a mission specialist on STS-55 in 1993 and the groundbreaking STS-63 flight in 1995 – which made him the first African American to walk in space.
The statement in advance that the next American ... astronaut corps since the late 1970s, when it chose an astronaut class that included women such as Sally Ride and Judith Resnick and African ...
That crew includes African American astronaut Victor Glover, a former U.S. Navy F-18 pilot with prior experience aboard the International Space Station. Also joining the mission is Christina Koch ...