Dr. Guion S. Bluford Jr. was the first African American to walk in space on August 30, 1983 during the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-8.
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Guion Bluford was the first African-American to actually make it to space. Other African Americans were chosen to be astronauts before him, but they didn't make it to space. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. would have been the first, but he was killed in a jet accident during a training exercise.Bernard A. Harris, Jr. was the first African-American to walk in space.Mae Jemison was the first Black woman in space.
Kathryn D. Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space in 1984 as part of Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41G.
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No, Astronaut John Glenn was not the first American to walk on the moon. The first American to walk on the moon was astronaut Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. John Glenn achieved the distinction of being the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
No, Edwin White was not the first person to walk in space. The first person to walk in space was Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on March 18, 1965 during the Voskhod 2 mission. Edwin White was a NASA astronaut who conducted a spacewalk on June 3, 1965 during the Gemini 4 mission.