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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 ...
Tyler Gerald Burrell was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, on August 22, 1967, [1][2] the son of teacher Sheri Rose (née Hauck) and family therapist Gary Gerald Burrell (1940–1989). [3][4][5][6] He has a younger brother, Duncan. [7] He is mostly of English and German descent, though he discovered via Finding Your Roots that he is also of 1/16th ...
Ronald Erwin McNair was born in Lake City, South Carolina, October 21, 1950, [1] [2] to Carl C. McNair, an auto repairman, and his wife, a high school teacher named Pearl. [3] Growing up alongside his older brother, Carl S., [ 4 ] as well as his younger brother, Eric, [ 5 ] McNair grew up in a low-income household, his home having lacked both ...
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 ...
Inderjit Chopra. Jeanette Jo Epps (born November 3, 1970) is an American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut. [1][2][3] Epps received both her M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, where she was part of the rotor-craft research group and was a NASA GSRP Fellow. [4][5] She was chosen for the 20th ...
Keep scrolling to meet Justin’s wife, kids and more: Sharon and Sam Baldoni. Courtesy of Sam Baldoni/Instagram. Justin’s parents welcomed their firstborn son in January 1984. The couple raised ...
Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, [1] [2] the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green). [3] Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math at the Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.