Throughout February, the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History is hosting a Black History Month banner exhibit ...

Guion Bluford was one of the most influential people in the space community, becoming the first African American to fly in space. Bluford became intrigued with flying at a very early age. By high ...

Guion Bluford was one of the most influential people in the space community, becoming the first African American to fly in space. Bluford became intrigued with flying at a very early age.

On the next mission, Guion Bluford became first Black American to reach orbit. Garrett Reisman, a retired NASA astronaut, said he did not recall a specific conversation discussing race or gender ...

She would go on to pursue an aerospace engineering degree at Penn State. There, Alvarez met Guion Bluford, the first African American in space. “He spoke to us about the challenges he faced to ‘be the ...

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 ...