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"The Life of Guion ""Guy"" Bluford: NASA Astronaut" Guion Bluford's Experience as an Astronaut. Guy's first mission was STS-8 aboard the space shuttle Challenger, which launched from Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 30, 1983. This was Challenger’s third flight but the first mission with a night launch and night landing. It also marked the occasion of the first African-American astronaut, Guy Bluford.
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Guion Bluford, first African-American in space, is an Eagle Scout Guion Bluford, first African-American in space, is an Eagle Scout February 16, 2017 Bryan Wendell Eagle Scout, Famous People 9 Long before becoming a barrier-breaking astronaut, Guion Bluford was a pretty typical American boy.
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An American walks in space One hundred and 20 miles above the earth, Major Edward H. White II opens the hatch of the Gemini 4 and steps out of the capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to walk in space.
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Kalpana Chawla Kalpana Chawla. Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was the first Indian-American astronaut and first Indian woman in space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator.
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Ilan Ramon (1954 - 2003) Colonel Ilan Ramon was an Israeli Air Force combat pilot and the first Israeli astronaut to take part in a space mission, the fatal Space Shuttle Columbia mission.. Ramon (born June 20,1954; died February 1, 2003) grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Meet the âHidden Figuresâ mathematician who helped send Americans into space Johnson (portrayed by Taraji P. Henson) played key roles in the flights of astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth. Johnson, now 98, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. She answered questions from The Times on her life, the film and her love of numbers. Advertisement
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Timeline of United States history Alan Shepard rode Freedom 7 to become the first American in space. He later went to the moon on Apollo 14.
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- LIFE remembers an emotionally gripping, technically audacious space walk -- America's first -- in June 1965, when Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White stepped from his capsule and made history.
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Guion Bluford 194,809 pages on this wiki. Dr. Guion Stewart “Guy” Bluford, Jr. (born November 22, 1942), is an engineer, NASA astronaut, and the first African American in space. Before becoming an astronaut, Bluford was a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
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John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit Earth in 1962 Astronaut John Glenn climbs into the Friendship 7 space capsule atop an Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla. for the flight which made him the first American to orbit the earth. (AP)
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Meet the first woman of color to go to space Exactly 23 years ago, on Sept. 12, 1992, Mae C. Jemison boarded the Endeavor shuttle and shot into space, becoming the first woman of color to make the trip. But NASA astronaut is only one of the many titles Jemison has held in her long and impressive career.
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- Guion S. Bluford Jr. USA Inducted in 1997. The first African-American to enter outer space. Dr. Guion S. Guy Bluford, Jr. became a NASA astronaut in August 1979. A veteran of four space flights, Bluford was a mission specialist on STS-8 in 1983, STS-61A in 1985, STS-39 in 1991, and STS-53 in 1992. Guion Bluford was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 22, 1942. His father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a special education teacher. He graduated from Overbrook Senior High School in Philadelphia in 1960.
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Mae Jemison She … became the first African  American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard  the Space Shuttle  Endeavour on September 12, 1992. She was the Mission Specialist  of the STS-47 during this space mission from September 12-20, 1992.
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Neil Armstrong Astronaut, military pilot, educator. Born on August 5, 1930, near Wapakoneta, Ohio. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to walk on the moon. He developed a fascination with flight at an early age and earned his student pilot’s license when he was 16. In 1947, Armstrong began his studies in aeronautical engineering at Purdue University on a U.S. Navy scholarship.
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- exists and is an alternate of . John Glenn (born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio), a decorated US Marine Corps pilot, flew the first US orbital mission, completing three orbits of the Earth in his space capsule, Friendship 7 , on February 20, 1962.
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Alan Shepard Glenn is the earliest-born American to go to orbit, and the second earliest-born man overall after Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy. Glenn received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990.
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Freedom 7 Space Capsule On May 5, 1961, US Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., soared into history. Crammed into this Mercury Space Capsule that he named Freedom 7, Shepard, a native of East Derry, New Hampshire, became the first American to travel in space.
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Guion Bluford, first African-American in space, is an Eagle Scout Guion Bluford, first African-American in space, is an Eagle Scout. February 16, 2017 Bryan Wendell Eagle Scout, Famous People 9. Long before becoming a barrier-breaking astronaut, Guion Bluford was a pretty typical American boy. He had a paper route, loved playing table tennis and was a Boy Scout, eventually earning Scouting’s highest honor: the Eagle Scout award. Few could’ve guessed that some day this Eagle Scout would become the first African-American in space. In celebration of Black History Month, let’s look at Bluford’s remarkable story.
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Wesley A. Brown First African-American to graduate from the United States Naval Academy Wesley Anthony Brown (April 3, 1927 – May 22, 2012) was the first African-American graduate of the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, Maryland. He served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars and served in the United States Navy from May 2, 1944, until June 30, 1969.
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Alan Shepard Alan Bartlett  Al  Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998), (RADM, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, flag officer, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person and the first American to travel into space.
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Alan Shepard: First American in Space Alan Shepard became the first American in space when the Freedom 7 spacecraft blasted off from Florida on May 5, 1961. Ten years later, Shepard would leave Earth's atmosphere again to become the fifth man to walk on the moon — and the first one to play golf there.lan Shepard became the first American in space when the Freedom 7 spacecraft blasted off from Florida on May 5, 1961. Ten years later, Shepard would leave Earth's atmosphere again to become the fifth man to walk on the moon — and the first one to play golf there.
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Mae Jemison: Astronaut Biography NASA astronaut Mae Jemison flew on space shuttle Endeavour in September 1992, becoming the first black woman to travel to space. Credit: NASA. View full size image. Early life. Born in Decatur, Ala., on Oct. 17, 1956, Mae Carol Jemison moved to Chicago, Ill., at the age of 3 and considers the city her hometown.ASA astronaut Mae Jemison flew on space shuttle Endeavour in September 1992, becoming the first black woman to travel to space. Credit: NASA. View full size image. Early life. Born in Decatur, Ala., on Oct. 17, 1956, Mae Carol Jemison moved to Chicago, Ill., at the age of 3 and considers the city her hometown.
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Astronaut In April 1985, Taylor Wang became the first ethnic Chinese person in space. The first person born in Africa to fly in space was Patrick Baudry (France), in 1985. In 1985, Saudi Arabian Prince Sultan Bin Salman Bin AbdulAziz Al-Saud became the first Arab Muslim astronaut in space.
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- Jemison blasted into orbit aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on Sept. 12, 1992, the first woman of color to go into space. She was science mission specialist on a U.S.-Japan joint mission, and conducted experiments in life sciences and materials sciences. She also was co-investigator for a bone cell research project.
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John Glenn, 1st American to Orbit Earth, Dies Glenn was one of America's first and most celebrated astronauts and had a long public career that included two space flights, 24 years as a senator from Ohio and a run for the presidency. He was born July 18, 1921. He will go down in history as the first American to orbit the earth, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts. On Feb. 20, 1962, he climbed into his Friendship 7 capsule, lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, circled the earth three times in five hours — and became a national hero. Zero G, and I feel fine, he said from his spacecraft.
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Who was the first American in space? Alan Shepard was the first of the Mercury astronauts to enter space, his flight was sub orbital, meaning he didn't actually orbit the Earth, that was left to John Glenn. Alan Shepard's flight took place on May 5th 1961, when piloting Freedom 7 he became the second man in space.