Harris will join Guion Bluford, Frederick Gregory ... He was awarded the NASA Award of Merit, the Space Flight Medal, along with several other honors. Harris left NASA in April 1996. He is currently ...

Astronaut Guion Bluford, the first African American in space; Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; and Charles Drew, a surgeon known as the “father of the blood bank,” are ...

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 medals were designed by a jewelry maker owned by the French luxury conglomerate, which has declined to comment on their deterioration. By Tariq Panja and Liz Alderman Tariq Panja and Liz ...

Guion "Guy" Bluford is a former NASA astronaut who was the first African-American to fly into space. He flew four shuttle missions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Marshall was the first African American to sit on the court. File Photo courtesy Library of Congress In 1983, Guion Bluford became the first Black American astronaut in space aboard the Challenger ...

McFall won the gold medal for the 200 meter sprint at the ... or a female astronaut to a space flight until 1983, when Guion Bluford and Sally Ride flew as mission specialists aboard the space ...

It wasn’t until 1983 that the first African American, Guion Bluford, reached space. But two decades earlier, Dwight found himself at a fulcrum of 20th century America, where the space race and ...

She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 for her ... the first woman to travel to space, Sally Ride; Guion "Guy" Bluford, Jr., the first Black American man to travel to space ...

From director Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Lisa Cortés with writing from Mark Monroe, the documentary includes notable trailblazers such as Guion Bluford, Charles Bolden, Ed Dwight, Victor Glover ...