NASA's Artemis II mission returns astronauts to the Moon with first female and African American crew members. Explore their profiles and historic adventure ahead.

You may have heard of Black astronauts like Mae Jemison, Charles Bolden or Victor Glover, but do you know about the first African-American astronauts or what they contributed to NASA’s space ...

*The Smithsonian Channel recently aired a documentary that tells the stories of NASA’s first Black American astronauts and the country’s race with Russia to put a person of color in space. Produced in ...

After Ed Dwight’s journey to become the first African-American in space ended, Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. was selected, on June 30, 1967, for the Defense Department’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory ...

Guion Bluford became the first African American astronaut to travel into space.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. talks about his ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A few weeks ago, Hidden Figures, the story ...

The Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members. A failed O-ring seal in the right solid rocket booster caused the disaster, which was ...