Astronaut Guion Bluford, the first African American in space ... Potential honorees include muralist and City Schools educator Ernest Shaw Jr., sculptor and educator Valerie Maynard, museum ...

The museum features 10 Black aviators, including astronauts Mae Jemison and Guion S. Bluford Jr., the first Black astronauts to go to space. An exhibit on the Tuskegee Airmen, including replicas ...

The museum takes you on a tour of the history of aviation, featuring 10 Black aviators, including astronauts Mae Jemison and Guion S. Bluford Jr., the first Black astronauts to go to space.

“Used to be a fantastic library,” said Emmet Pierson, Jr., president of Community ... At the branch’s reopening in 2010, Bluford’s nephew Guion Bluford — who in 1983 became the first ...

File Photo courtesy Library of Congress In 1983, Guion Bluford became the first Black ... profile visits from U.S. figures like Donald Trump Jr., who met with business leaders in Seoul Tuesday.

Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr. After all those years, Dwight finally made it to space Sunday while traveling aboard the New Shepard rocket. It was the seventh human flight for Blue Origin, the space ...

NASA didn’t select Black astronauts until 1978, and Guion Bluford became the first African ... including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman and the Underground ...

In any case, it would be another two decades before Guion Bluford Jr. became the first Black American in space in 1983. Dwight went on to become a sculptor but held onto his dream of spaceflight.

Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr. Mr. Dwight, then a captain, standing by an F-104 jet fighter in 1963. He was among the first pilots to be trained for spaceflight.Credit...Bettmann Archive/Getty Images ...

And of course I said yes." While Dwight won't be the first African American in space — that honor went to Guion Bluford Jr. in 1983 — he will be the oldest person to go there, edging out (by a ...