Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African American astronaut and a Bradley University graduate, was honored with a statue ...

Temple native and astronaut Bernard Anthony Harris blazed a trail that took him to outer space — as the first ...

Temple native and astronaut Bernard Anthony Harris blazed a trail that took him to outer space — as the first ...

In June 1967, with thousands of flight hours under his belt and a PhD in Chemistry from Ohio State University, Major Lawrence became the first African American astronaut. The astronaut was selected to ...

In 2024, Jeanette Epps set the mark as the African American astronaut who has spent the most time in space. Fifteen other Black astronauts in the U.S. astronaut corps have flown in space since Guion ...

After a year of training in the astronaut program ... third and fourth African American in space, logging over 688 hours. In 1993, Bluford left NASA and retired from the Air Force to become ...

After a year of training in the astronaut program, Bluford became an official astronaut in Aug ... Over the next 10 years, Bluford became the second, third and fourth African American in space, ...

On this day in 1995, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. made history, stepping into the vastness of space and becoming the first African American astronaut to complete a spacewalk. Floating 130 miles above ...