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Astronomy · 1942–

Guion Bluford

Aerospace engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, and NASA astronaut, Guion Bluford flew 144 combat missions in Vietnam before earning his doctorate in aerospace engineering. In 1983 he became the first African American to travel to space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. He completed four missions in total, logging more than 688 hours in orbit, and was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2010.

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