List of African-American astronauts

African-American astronauts are people who have either traveled into space or been part of an astronaut program.

African-American astronauts

Traveled into space

# Image Name
Birth date
Note Missions (launch date) Sources
1 Guion Bluford
November 22, 1942
United States
First African-American astronaut in space [1]
2 Ronald McNair
October 21, 1950
†January 28, 1986
United States
Killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster [1]
3 Frederick D. Gregory
January 7, 1941
United States
First African American to pilot and command a Space Shuttle mission; acting Administrator of NASA, 2005 [1]
4 Charles Bolden
August 19, 1946
United States
Administrator of NASA, July 17, 2009 – January 20, 2017 [1]
5 Mae Jemison
October 17, 1956
United States
First African-American woman in space [1]
6 Bernard A. Harris Jr.
June 26, 1956
United States
First African American to walk in space [1]
7 Winston E. Scott
August 6, 1950
United States
Veteran of three spacewalks [1]
8 Robert Curbeam
March 5, 1962
United States
Veteran of seven spacewalks [1]
9 Michael P. Anderson
December 25, 1959
†February 1, 2003
United States
Killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster [1]
10 Stephanie Wilson
September 27, 1966
United States
[1]
11 Joan Higginbotham
August 3, 1964
United States
[1]
12 Alvin Drew
November 5, 1962
United States
Veteran of two spacewalks, February 28 and March 2, 2011 [1]
13 Leland D. Melvin
February 15, 1964
United States
Associate Administrator for Education at NASA [1]
14 Robert Satcher
September 22, 1965
United States
EVA November 19 and November 23, 2009 [1]

Never traveled into space

Image Name
Birth date
Note Sources
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.
October 2, 1935
†December 8, 1967
United States
First African-American astronaut; selected for astronaut training in 1967 for the MOL program; died in an aircraft accident
Livingston L. Holder, Jr.
September 29, 1956
United States
USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program
Michael E. Belt
September 9, 1957
United States
Astronaut, payload specialist from TERRA SCOUT - US Army Project; retired January 12, 1991
Yvonne Cagle
April 24, 1959
United States
Astronaut
Jeanette J. Epps
November 2, 1970
United States
Astronaut
On January 5, 2016 NASA announced that Epps will become the first African-American space station crew member when she launches on her first spaceflight in May 2018, as a flight engineer on Expedition 56, remaining on board for Expedition 57.
Victor J. Glover
April 30, 1976
United States
Astronaut
Jessica Watkins
May 14, 1988
United States
Astronaut candidate, NASA Astronaut Group 22 [2]

First African-American astronaut candidate

Image Name
Birth date
Note Sources
Ed Dwight
September 9, 1933
United States
Selected as the first African-American astronaut candidate in 1961; resigned from the Air Force in 1966 after government officials created a threatening atmosphere

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "NASA's African-American Astronauts Fact Sheet". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  2. Garcia, Mark (2017-06-06). "Astronaut Candidate Jessica Watkins". NASA. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
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