Marshall was the first African American to sit on the court. In 1983, Guion Bluford became the first Black American astronaut in space aboard the Challenger as part of the STS-8 mission.

NASA didn't select Black astronauts until 1978, and Guion Bluford became the first African American in space in 1983. Three years earlier, the Soviets launched the first Black astronaut ...

America’s first astronauts of the1960’s “Project Mercury”, envisioned a place where former astronauts could be honored. In ...