Forty years ago, Guion “Guy” Stewart Bluford II became the first Black astronaut to go to space as “a crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger when it launched from Kennedy Space Station on its ...

On Aug. 30, 1983, Guion “Guy” Bluford became the first Black American to reach space. But 40 years later, only 16 Black Americans have entered space. Bluford’s mission marked the first time the space ...

"The Space Race" is a new documentary about some of the first Black astronauts. NASA trained Ed Dwight and Robert Lawrence to become astronauts in the 1960s. But NASA didn't send an African-American ...

Guion “Guy” Bluford became the first Black American to reach space on Aug. 30, 1983. His mission, the first night launch and landing of the space shuttle, began a new era for the agency — one that ...

On Aug. 30, 1983, history was made when Guion Bluford Jr., a decorated Air Force pilot and aerospace engineer, soared into space aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. This momentous flight, known as ...

Aug. 30 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 30 B.C., Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, killed herself following the defeat of her forces by Octavian, the future ...

Guion Bluford, born in 1942, pursued aerospace engineering, earning advanced degrees and training as a fighter pilot before being selected as a space shuttle astronaut in 1978. He made history on ...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Former astronaut Guion Bluford Jr., now the head of a Cleveland aerospace business consulting firm, is to speak at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s annual ...