NASA didn’t select Black astronauts until 1978, and Guion Bluford became the first African American in space in 1983. Three years earlier, the Soviets launched the first Black astronaut ...

The Rev. Dr. Robert Bluford Jr. is a 1936 graduate of John Marshall High School, having been born three weeks after the end of World War I. He turns 98 in December. I asked where this drive to ...