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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.
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.
First flight of an African American in space, Guion Bluford; Test of robot arm on heavy payloads with Payload Flight Test Article; First night launch; First night landing [39] [40] 9 28 November 1983 16:00:00 UTC 11:00:00 EST STS-9: Columbia: 6 10d 07h LC-39A: Edwards: First Spacelab mission; First European Space Agency Astronaut on a shuttle ...
Sally Ride, joint 120th person and the first American woman in space Guion Bluford, joint 125th person and the first African American in space Bruce McCandless, joint 133rd person in space and the first to perform an untethered EVA Rakesh Sharma, 139th person and the first Indian in space Anna Lee Fisher, joint 155th person and the first mother ...
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 – Astronaut and first African American to fly in space (STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, STS-53) John Boccieri – Member of Congress of Ohio. Paul Bogart – Five-time Emmy Award-winning television director and producer; Richard Bong – American Ace of Aces; Frank Borman – Astronaut (Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 – first flight to orbit ...
Charles Lindbergh's first piloting job was flying airmail for Robertson Aircraft Corporation from the airfield. He stopped at the airport during his cross-country San Diego to New York flight about a week before his record-breaking flight to Paris in 1927. In February 1928, the City of St. Louis leased the airport for $1.
Thus, in 1978, a new group of 35 astronauts was selected after 9 years without new astronauts, including the first American female astronauts, with one of them, Judith Resnik, also being the first Jewish American astronaut, as well as the first African-American astronauts to fly, Guion Bluford and Frederick D. Gregory (the first black astronaut ...