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On This Day, Aug. 30: Guion Bluford becomes 1st Black American in space
United Press International via Yahoo News UK· 11 months agoOn August 30, 1983, Guion Bluford became the first Black astronaut in space. File Photo courtesy of...
Ed Dwight, America’s First Black Astronaut Candidate, Makes History by Finally Reaching Space at 90
People via Yahoo News UK· 2 months agoDwight was on Blue Origin’s latest crewed space flight on May 19, decades after he was selected as...
Resurfaced ‘Drunk History’ Clip Tells How Nichelle Nichols ‘Literally Integrated Space’
HuffPost via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoNichelle Nichols and Raven-Symoné as Nichols on “Drunk History.” (Photo: CBS Photo Archive /...
Nichelle Nichols, Pioneering Star Trek Actor, Dies At 89
Huffington Post UK · 2 years agoNichelle Nichols arrives for Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage 50th Anniversary Tour in 2016....
‘The Space Race’ Review: Doc Reveals the Moving, Untold and Almost 60-Year History of a Few Black...
Variety via Yahoo News UK· 1 year agoTaking on an expansive topic, the contribution of Black astronauts to the American space program,...
Bezos’s Blue Origin sends first crew to edge of space since 2022
The Hill via Yahoo News UK· 2 months agoBlue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s rocket company, sent its first crew into space in nearly two years, after...
The Untold Story of Black Astronauts Finally Gets Spotlight
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News UK· 6 months agoPhoto Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/National Geographic and Getty ImagesWith their...
Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, finally goes to space 60 years later
Associated Press via Yahoo News UK· 2 months agoEd Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later,...
The man who was almost NASA's first Black astronaut in the 1960s explains why he never made it to...
Business Insider via Yahoo News UK· 6 months agoEd Dwight in the cockpit of an F-104 circa the 1960s.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images "The Space Race"...
National Geographic Blasts Off With ‘The Space Race,’ Documentary On NASA’s Black Astronauts –...
Deadline via Yahoo News UK· 1 year agoEXCLUSIVE: For NASA’s pioneering Black astronauts, gravity wasn’t the only barrier impeding them...