“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 9/11/13:
It was thirty years ago on August 30th that Guion “Guy” Bluford, now 70, became the first African-America in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger. “Bluford was part of NASA’s barrier-breaking 1978 class of astronauts. Of the 35 spaceflyers selected, three were African-Americans, and six were women, including Sally Ride. . . . ‘Guy was the first person of color to fly and that was absolutely incredible, but it was would have been empty had he been the first and only,’ added [NASA chief Charles] Bolden, who became the space agency’s first black administrator in 2009 and is also a veteran of four space shuttle flights.” Read more and see a video on the NASA website.
