In July, 1961, Frederick Dutton, special assistant to the president, wrote to Adam Yarmolinsky, special assistant to the secretary of defense to say that it was important "that for symbolic purposes in crossing the frontiers of space, this country would have qualified members from minority backgrounds." Shortly after, General Curtis LeMay, chief of the air force told Chuck Yeager, who was running Aerospace Research Pilot School (ARPS) at Edwards Air Force Base that, " Bobby Kennedy wants a colored in space. Resigned from the Air Force in 1966 due to racial politics. Often cited as the first African-American astronaut candidate ImageĮd Dwight made it to the second round of an Air Force program from which NASA selected astronauts, but was not selected by NASA to be an astronaut. On August 4, 2023, NASA announced that Epps would join SpaceX Crew-8, currently scheduled to launch early 2024. Hennen for the STS-44 mission which deployed a military satellite, undergoing 9 months of astronaut training for the role He was selected as an astronaut through the US Army's Terra Scout program which was created specifically to support STS-44. Although he did not fly any shuttle missions during his time as an astronaut, he was the back-up payload specialist to Thomas J.
USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer ProgramĪstronaut, payload specialist from TERRA SCOUT – US Army Project retired January 12, 1991.
First African American commercial Astronaut.įirst African American woman to be an ISS expedition crew memberįirst African-American astronaut selected for astronaut training in 1967 for the MOL program died in an aircraft accident Joined ISS Expedition 64 as first African-American on an ISS Expeditionįirst African American female Spacecraft Pilot, as part of Inspiration4. Veteran of two spacewalks, February 28 and March 2, 2011Īssociate Administrator for Education at NASA The first three African Americans to travel into space – Ronald McNair, Guion Bluford and Fred GregoryĪfrican-American astronauts are Americans of African descent who have either traveled into space or been part of an astronaut program.Īfrican-American astronauts Traveled into space #įirst African-American astronaut in spaceįirst Baháʼí in space died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disasterįirst African American to pilot and command a Space Shuttle mission acting Administrator of NASA, 2005Īdministrator of NASA, J– January 20, 2017ĭied in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
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