Dr. Bernard Harris will be inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame. The Temple, TX, native graduated from the University of ...

HOUSTON — Dr. Bernard Harris, the first African American to walk in space, is set to be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall ...

Pioneering astronaut, NASA scientist and surgeon Dr. Bernard Harris will be inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame later ...

Becoming an astronaut is hard enough, but one woman overcame obstacles to become the first African American woman in space. Born in the 1950s, Jemison would let nothing stop her from becoming one ...

On this day in 1995, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. made history, stepping into the vastness of space and becoming the first African American astronaut to complete a spacewalk. Floating 130 miles above ...

Temple native and astronaut Bernard Anthony Harris blazed a trail that took him to outer space — as the first ...

Jemison was on her way to becoming the first woman of colour and first African-American woman in space. Born in 1956 in Decatur, Alabama, Mae Carol Jemison moved to Chicago with her family aged three.

The first African-American woman to fly in space, Mae Jemison (1956-) holds a B.S. in chemical engineering. In 1992, she served on an eight-day Space Shuttle mission that conducted microgravity ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.