Eventually, America did send a Black man to space. In 1983, astronaut Guion Bluford Jr. became the first Black person to travel to space. This would open the door for other firsts too, such as ...

Blue Origin rocket carries first Black astronaut candidate into space 04:22. Ed Dwight, a 90-year-old artist and former Air Force test pilot who was denied a chance to become the first African ...

Black pilots have always been capable of piloting a moon mission. Victor Glover Jr.'s selection is really progress for NASA. First Black astronaut to the moon — whose progress is it?

At least 500 astronauts have traveled to space -- yet only 18 of those have been Black astronauts, according to NASA. "The Space Race," an upcoming documentary film directed by Lisa Cortés and ...

That’s exactly what he did. Now Harris — who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk and recently released his second book, Embracing Infinite Possibilities — will be inducted into the ...

Major Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., a decorated pilot and chemist, became the first black astronaut selectee in 1967. He died during a jet training accident six months later and never got to go to space, ...

In 1961, Ed Dwight was selected by President John F. Kennedy to enter an Air Force training program known as the path to NASA's Astronaut Corps. But he ultimately never made it to space.

America’s first Black astronaut candidate has finally made it to outer space 60-plus years later—and he's the oldest person to do so.

African American astronaut Guion ‘Guy’ Bluford smiles while serving as Mission Specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger’s third misson STS-8, September 1983.