来自MSN29 天
Chosen to be the first Black astronaut, he got to space six decades later
Dwight was the first Black man selected for an American astronaut-training program in 1962. He had spent years at Edwards Air Force Base in California doing zero-gravity training, running test ...
Business Insider India6 年
Jeanette Epps would have been the first black astronaut to live on the Space Station, but ...
Jeanette Epps was about to become the first African American to live at the International Space Station. But NASA announced in January it was replacing her with another astronaut. Epps said this ...
BBC6 年
Nasa removes US astronaut from ISS mission
The US astronaut Jeanette Epps has been removed from her upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS) just months before launch. Dr Epps was to have been the first African-American ...
BBC7 个月
Decades after training, 90-year-old finally goes to space on Blue Origin flight
In 1961, he was chosen by then US President John F Kennedy as the first black astronaut candidate in the country. But Nasa did not select him for a mission and he did not get a chance to go to ...
Stylist6 年
The remarkable true story of Mae Jemison, the first woman of colour in space
As the rockets fired against the Florida launch pad, Jemison was on her way to becoming the first woman of colour and first African-American woman ... that all of the astronauts were white men.
Medicine Buffalo29 天
Cora P. Maloney Center
It is named in honor of Dr. Ronald E. McNair, a pioneering African-American astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Dr. McNair came from a low-income background but went on ...