"My hope is that space will be an opportunity for us to come together as a people," Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. saysNEED TO KNOWDr ...

“I was a little bitty kid, and I became their mascot, the Black kid ... how I got all the background I needed for flying.” Fourteen years before he nearly integrated the astronaut corps ...

Dwight's astronaut candidacy became cover news on Black magazines such as Jet ... "Ed Dwight was an average pilot with an average academic background. He wasn't a bad pilot, but he wasn't ...

It was also his background as America's first black astronaut candidate. Getty Images President John F Kennedy wanted a black astronaut to be part of Nasa's intake in the early 1960s (Credit ...

Bolden Jr., an African American retired Marine Corps major general, fighter pilot and astronaut on four space flights. Bolden, along with other Black astronauts, was honored for being involved in ...