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 ...
Guion Bluford, a Philadelphia native, is an American aerospace engineer and retired NASA astronaut. He is best known as the first African American person to travel to space and flew on four Space ...
When Challenger's third mission, STS-8, took off on Aug. 30, 1983, deploying the Insat-1B weather and communications satellite for India wasn't the only record achieved. This launch also marked ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Black Wings Exhibit and Book Collection, Acc. NASM.1993.0060, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian ...
Click to open image viewer. Astronaut Guion S. "Guy" Bluford, Jr. wore this shirt during the six-day Space Shuttle STS-8 mission aboard Challenger in August-September 1983, when he became the first ...
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