Guion "Guy" Bluford is a former NASA astronaut who was the first African-American to fly into space. He flew four shuttle missions. Guion "Guy" Bluford is a former NASA astronaut who was the first ...

In 1983, Guion Bluford became the first Black American astronaut in space aboard the Challenger as part of the STS-8 mission.

In any case, it would be another two decades before Guion Bluford Jr. became the first ... training in the 1960s but never got to space. That mission made Funk the world’s oldest spaceflier ...