Sharon Caples McDougle, NASA’s first African American spacesuit technician, broke barriers and paved the way for future generations in STEM.
*The Smithsonian Channel recently aired a documentary that tells the stories of NASA’s first Black American astronauts and the country’s race with Russia to put a person of color in space. Produced in ...
Wendy Okolo, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in Aerospace Engineering at 26, inspires underrepresented youth in STEM ...
Retired United Airlines pilot Captain Willie L. Daniels II said he first became interested in the skies when growing up in ...
On this day in 1989, Colonel Frederick Drew Gregory became the first African American astronaut to pilot and command the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Guion Bluford, a Philadelphia native, is an American aerospace engineer and retired NASA astronaut. He is best known as the first African American person to travel to space and flew ...