" Guion "Guy" Bluford became the first black person to go into space. He was on the Space Shuttle Challenger's STS 8 mission, launched on August 30, 1983. The first black woman was Mae Jemison. " Guion "Guy" Bluford was NOT the 1st Black Person in space, he WAS the 1st African-American. In 1980, the 1st Black person in space was Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, a Cuban. no the first African American to go into space was guion bluford like the first person said
The first black person to travel to outer space was Guion Bluford, who flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983.
Mae Jemison was the first black woman to go to space. She flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992 as a mission specialist on mission STS-47.
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The last person to go into space alone was Yi So-yeon, a South Korean astronaut who flew to the International Space Station in 2008. She became the first Korean to travel to space and the first to do so alone.
" Guion "Guy" Bluford became the first black person to go into space. He was on the Space Shuttle Challenger's STS 8 mission, launched on August 30, 1983. The first black woman was Mae Jemison. " Guion "Guy" Bluford was NOT the 1st Black Person in space, he WAS the 1st African-American. In 1980, the 1st Black person in space was Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, a Cuban. no the first African American to go into space was guion bluford like the first person said
The first black person to travel to outer space was Guion Bluford, who flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983.
No but she was the first black woman to go to space.
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It was Dennis Tito. He was the first self-funding tourist to go into space for vacation.
she is important to Chicago because she was the first person to go to space Acually No She was not the first person to go to space she was the 4th African American to enter space but the first FEMALE African American to enter space...
It was Yuri Gagarin
The first African American man in space was Guion Bluford. his first flight was in 1983.guion "guy" bluford was the first African American to go into space; however, the first black man to go into space as quoted by Wikipedia:Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) was the first Cuban cosmonaut and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit. He was also the first Hispanophone and first Black person in space
Mae Carol Jemison
Mae Jemison was the first black woman to go to space. She flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992 as a mission specialist on mission STS-47.
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