Guion "Guy" Bluford is a former NASA astronaut who was the first African-American to fly into space. He flew four shuttle missions. Guion "Guy" Bluford is a former NASA astronaut who was the first ...

So, you have to give people a chance and let them have that opportunity to do the job,” said McDougle, who was able to suit up other African American astronauts including Dr. Bernard Harris ...

Plans for Nasa's Artemis II mission, which will send the first woman and the first African American astronauts to the moon, are in progress, as are plans to send people’s names to the moon.

Sian “Leo” Proctor, an astronaut and trailblazer. Dr. Procter was the first African American woman to pilot a spaceship, paint in space, and serve as a commercial astronaut. The digital site ...

The US astronaut Jeanette Epps has been removed from her upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS) just months before launch. Dr Epps was to have been the first African-American ...

It is named in honor of Dr. Ronald E. McNair, a pioneering African-American astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Dr. McNair came from a low-income background but went on ...