Guy Bluford Remembered as the First African American Astronaut

When he was accepted into NASA's astronaut training program in 1978, Guy Bluford never aimed to become the first African-American in space.

STS-8 aboard the space shuttle Challenger, STS 61-A (also aboard the Challenger, just months before its disastrous end), STS-39 (aboard the Discovery), and STS-53 (also aboard Discovery).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• african
• american
• astronaut
• nasa
• space
• shuttle
• challenger
• discovery
• launch
• kennedy
• center
• sts
• History
• Alien
• First
• Space Shuttle Discovery
• Aliens
• Ufo
• Moon
• Earth
• Flying
• Planet
• Universe
• Culture
• Documentary
• Project
• Civil
• Museum
• Secret
• Heritage

[bulletburposmiley]

Cool! I have a question though. I know they wanted to perform a night launch, but why what till 2am in the morning?

[astrorider]

If the shuttle is docking with ISS or anything else, there is a certain launch window during the launch day which the shuttle can meet the other object's orbiting path.

[Quex01]

Nineteen fifty seven or fifty eight. It was a different time, you see.

[minusblame]

Where is the space craft now?

[Matleau]

@thuthmosis Truthmossis....... there you go with this crap..... "Afro-Cuban" . Cubans refer to themselves as Cuban, no hyphenation. These hyphenated nationalities are an American invention. May be we need to follow their lead and refer to all Americans as Americans, after all it is redundant to call a black American an "African American" , one glance and the ancestry is confirmed

[Matleau]

Truthmossis....... there you go with this crap..... "Afro-Cuban" . Cubans refer to themselves as Cuban, no hyphenation. These hyphenated nationalities are an American invention. May be we need to follow their lead and refer to all Americans as Americans, after all it is redundant to call a black American an "African American" , one glance and the ancestry is confirmed.

[englishguy2010]

Just spotted a flaw in this video. When you see President Reagan inside the mission control room talking to the astronauts, he's sitting next to Daniel Brandenstein. Yet Dan Brandenstein is meant to be on the space shuttle that the president is talking to LOL

[cal31BRIAN23]

Sad look at the views for this video, and compare them to those of lil wayne or gucci mane. real sad.

[TracyAndersonFoxhunt]

he's a nice man

[westxlcr]

Very nice!

[will3kgt]

If what you say is true, perhaps you should choose your words a bit more carefully so you don't offend so many of every color.