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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.
Robert D. Cabana Second spaceflight Mission Specialist 1 Guion Bluford Fourth and last spaceflight Mission Specialist 2 Flight Engineer James S. Voss Second spaceflight Mission Specialist 3 Michael R. Clifford First spaceflight
STS-61-A was not the first Space Shuttle flight of an ESA astronaut or a West German citizen, as Ulf Merbold, who also served as the backup on this mission, had previously flown on the STS-9 mission in 1983, [5] but Wubbo Ockels became the first Dutch citizen in space. Guion S. Bluford at the time was already the first African-American in space ...
STS-39 was the first unclassified Department of Defense (DoD)-dedicated Space Shuttle mission. There had previously been seven Shuttle missions dedicated to the DoD, but those were considered classified and information about the operation or success of the payloads or experiments was not released.
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 ...
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 ...
Guion Bluford: 1958 c. Air Force colonel; astronaut who participated in four flights of the Space Shuttle–STS-8, STS-39, STS-53, and STS-61-A; first African American in space; designated as the emissary to return the Challenger flag to a Boy Scout troop Matthew Bogusz: 2004 Mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois [53] Charles H. Bonesteel III † 1925