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Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (born November 22, 1942) is an American aerospace engineer, retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, in which capacity he became the first African American to go to space. [1][2][a] While assigned to NASA, he remained a USAF officer rising to the rank of colonel.
The Bluford Series is a widely read collection of contemporary American young adult novels set in the fictional inner-city high school of Bluford High in Southern California. Bluford is named for Guion "Guy" Bluford, the first African-American astronaut. [1] The series was created and published by Townsend Press [2] and was co-distributed by ...
STS-9 →. STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September 5, 1983, conducting the first night launch and night landing of the Space Shuttle program. It also carried the first African-American astronaut, Guion Bluford.
To keep your balance, you must keep moving." – Albert Einstein. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anais Nin. "You do not find the happy life. You make it ...
Guion S. Bluford at the time was already the first African-American in space, having previously flown on STS-8. With STS-61-A he became the first African-American to fly in space twice. [6] He would later go on to fly on STS-39 in 1991 and on STS-53 in 1992. Bluford was a member of the U.S. astronaut class of 1978. [6]
Guion Bluford became the first Black person in space in 1983, and would spend 688 hours there over the course of his career as an astronaut. Music and Television Entertainer Nat King Cole poses ...
Original – Guion Bluford in 1992. Reason. Guion Bluford is the first African American to go to space. He went to space four times. This photograph was taken just a few months before his last trip in the Space Shuttle program. Articles in which this image appears. Guion Bluford, List of African-American astronauts + 3 others.
Lucile Bluford (1911-2003) U.S. journalist; Terry Bluford Moore (1912-1995) U.S. baseball player; Albert Bluford Walker (1926-1992) U.S. baseball player; Floyd Bluford Henry III (born 1968) U.S. baseball player; with this given name. Bluford Duck (1858-1895) Old West outlaw; Bluford Wilson (1841-1924) Solicitor General of the United States of ...