Ed Dwight, America’s first African-American astronaut candidate, celebrates Black Space Week in 2024, “Beyond the colours of colours from science fiction to science fiction to science facts.” , spoke at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
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The NS-25 mission Blue Origin’s seventh irregular flight so far has been transformed by Mason Angel, Sylvainchiron, Ed Dwight, Kenhes, Carol Shallah and Goppet Takura.
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At the age of 32, Sally Ride not only became the first American woman in space, but also holds the record as the youngest astronaut in the United States. The ride follows two other female astronauts, two women, Soviet Valentina Teleshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. One of six women in the 1978 Astronaut class, on a ride trip on June 18, 1983, she deployed the satellite as a mission specialist.
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Guion “Guy” Bluford became the first black American astronaut in space on August 30, 1983. He was also an Eagle Scout.
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Astronaut Majemison became the first woman of color to enter space. This 1992 photo shows her in a Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS-47) working on the SpaceLab-J module.
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Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played the iconic fictional character Lt. Uhura in Star Trek, wrote in her autobiography that Martin Luther King was still on the show.
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Presented at a press conference on August 9, 1963, President John F. Kennedy highlighted the reasons behind the US efforts to reach the moon in a coalition speech on January 11, 1962.
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Filmed from the Blue Origin broadcast, this screen grab took off from Blue Origin Base near Van Horn, Texas on May 19, 2024, showing the mission NS-25 with a new Shepherd 4 rocket and crew capsule .
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Mae Jemison and Sally Ride Lego Build have a Launchpad and Space Shuttle Challenger with three removable rocket stages.
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Lt. Colonel Florida Janet Nunez and Governor Ron DeSantis signed a memorandum of understanding with Kent Fuchs, interim president of the University of Florida, on January 8, 2025, when director of Kennedy Space Center, director Janet Petro signed a memorandum with interim president of the University of Florida. . P. Barry Butler, President of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Alexander Cartwright, University of Central Florida; MOU creates the state’s official space research consortium.
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