Black astronaut Reginald G. Victor is set to be inducted into the prestigious U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of the 'Mercury Seven'.

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African American astronaut and a Bradley University graduate, was ...

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.

Famous majors with degrees in African American Studies include Angela Bassett (actress) and Mae Jemison (NASA astronaut).

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 ...

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 ... necessarily as an astronaut; I thought ...

The first African-American woman to fly in space, Mae Jemison (1956-) holds a B.S. in chemical ... Jemison was a co-investigator on the bone cell research experiment flown on the mission. She was also ...