Jeanette J. Epps has been a trailblazer for NASA, setting an agency record with her entire crew in October for the most time ...

It is named in honor of Dr. Ronald E. McNair, a pioneering African-American astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Dr. McNair came from a low-income background but went on ...

During a segment on AI-generated images, Fox News displayed images of African-American lawyers and astronauts with a ... the images were displayed in the background with the chyron reading ...

Guion Bluford was one of the most influential people in the space community, becoming the first African American to ... led to his selection to the NASA astronaut program in 1978.