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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 ...

The next mission, STS-8, saw Guion Bluford become the first African-American in space, launching aboard Challenger on Aug. 30, 1983. The mission also marked the shuttle program's first night ...

To the moon and beyond. For decades, that has been the goal of NASA and its world-famous space crews. One integral part of that mission has been Black astronauts, who are chronicled in National ...

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 ...