FULL NAME: Willard Carroll Smith Jr. BORN: September 25 ... counts late NBA legend Wilt Chamberlin and former astronaut Guion Bluford as alumni. Smith was a good student whose charming personality ...

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 ...

Regarding their milestones, the first Black astronaut to travel to space was mission specialist Guion Bluford in 1983 ... Charles Bolden Jr. piloted shuttle fights in 1986 and 1990 and ...

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.

The San Francisco 49’s Eli Harold (58), Colin Kaepernick (7) and Eric Reid (35) kneel during the national anthem before a game against the Dallas Cowboys on October 2, 2016, at Levi’s Stadium ...

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.

Dwight Jr.’s accomplishments ... Bluford — the renowned publisher of the Kansas City Call whose nephew, Guion Bluford, in 1983 became the first Black man in space. Dwight’s “Phoenix ...

It wasn’t until 1983 that the first Black astronaut, Penn State alum Guion Bluford, flew to space ... Those leaders — retired astronaut B. Alvin Drew, Jr, United Airlines Interiors Engineer ...

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 ...