Guion Guy Stewart Bluford | |
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| Born | Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. November 22, 1942 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | Pennsylvania State University (BS) Air University (MS, PhD) University of Houston (MBA) |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
| Rank | Colonel, USAF |
Time in space | 28d 16h 33m |
| Selection | NASA Group 8 (1978) |
| Missions | STS-8 STS-61-A STS-39 STS-53 |
Mission insignia |     |
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. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8, he became the first African American in space as well as the second black person in space, after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.[3]
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bluford first space.
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- ^ Leahy, Anna; Dechow, Douglas R. (February 7, 2017). "What Everyone Gets Wrong about Black History in the Space Age". Scientific American. Archived from the original on June 16, 2020. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
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