Dr. Guion Bluford, Jr., first African-American in space, was born November 23, 1942 in Philadelphia, PA. He entered the NASA program as an astronaut in 1979 and blasted off August 30, 1983 on his first mission in the Space Shuttle Challenger. Dr. Bluford made a total of four shuttle missions on the Challenger and the Discovery.
He retired from the Air Force in 1993.
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