List of African American astronauts
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This is a list of African-American astronauts.
- Michael Phillip Anderson
- Charles F. Bolden
- Guion Bluford - First African-American astronaut (1983)[1]
- Yvonne Cagle
- Robert Curbeam
- Benjamin Alvin Drew
- Frederick D. Gregory
- Bernard A. Harris, Jr.
- Joan Higginbotham
- Mae Jemison
- Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. - First African-American selected for astronaut training (1967)
- Ronald McNair
- Leland Melvin
- Robert Satcher
- Winston E. Scott
- Stephanie Wilson
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez was the first person of African descent in space, in 1980.
