Space
Guion S. Bluford Jr.
1942 · Birth year
1983
First African American in space
What Guion contributed
Flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-8 mission.
The story
Bluford was an Air Force pilot, aerospace engineer, and NASA mission specialist who completed four Space Shuttle flights.
Why it matters
His flight broke a racial barrier in the U.S. astronaut corps and human spaceflight.
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