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The agency did not choose a Black astronaut until 1978, and a Black Astronaut would not venture into space until Guion Bluford made history ... than actor 90-year-old William Shatner when he ...

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At the branch’s reopening in 2010, Bluford’s nephew Guion Bluford — who in 1983 became ... Divided in the middle, the table holds two tan, old-fashioned push telephones, one on each side.

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An 18-year-old woman rode a Virgin Galactic rocketplane ... no African American candidates were selected until the space shuttle era, when Guion Bluford became the first African American in ...

Stunningly sharp and vibrant at 90 years old, Dwight now tends either to laugh ... publisher of the Kansas City Call whose nephew, Guion Bluford, in 1983 became the first Black man in space.

In 2021, on Blue Origin's first passenger flight, it was 82-year-old aviator and former Mercury ... into space until 20 years later, when Guion "Guy" Bluford – also an aerospace engineer and ...

Now more than a decade old and with a history of financial struggles ... It took another 20 years for America's first Black astronaut, Guion Bluford, to fly in space in 1983.

The 90-year-old was a member of the 1963 class of astronauts ... Rocket Architect on Next Space Flight According to the AP, Guion Bluford became the first African American to visit space in ...