Frederick Gregory, born January 7, 1941 in Washington, DC, is a veteran of three space shuttle flights and is the first African-American to pilot a space shuttle. He was in NASA's astronaut selection class with Ronald McNair and Guy Bluford.
His first flight was aboard Challenger (STS-51-B) as pilot April-May 1985. It was the second flight for the European Space Agency's Spacelab.
His second flight was on Discovery (STS-33) as commander in November 1989. The mission was for the Department of Defense so we know very little of what the objectives were.
Gregory's third and final flight was aboard Atlantis (STS-44) as commander November-December 1991, which was also a DoD flight.
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