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Ed Dwight: America’s first Black astronaut candidate will finally get his flight to space at 90

90-year-old Ed Dwight will at long last be able to fly into space. Jeff Bezos’s space venture company recently revealed that Dwight, the nation’s first black astronaut candidate, will be one...

Aerospace engineer claims he lost his job after employers learned he’s also a sex worker

A 39-year-old man, who was earning $150,000 annually as an aerospace engineer, claims he was fired after his employers learned he was also a porn star. According to the New York Post, John Legendary, who...

Howard professor AJ Link teaches the first space law class offered at an HBCU law school

Space law is often described as the body of law governing space-related activities. It’s been around for more than six decades, yet it is not widely taught in law schools in the United States. According...

Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers to become 1st mother-daughter duo to travel to space 

Antiguan citizens Keisha Schahaff and her daughter Anastatia Mayers will become the first mother and daughter to travel on a spaceflight together as they have been named among the crew for Virgin Galactic’s...

Aisha Bowe, 1st Black woman to travel to space with Jeff Bezos, gets billion-dollar contract: report

Months after it was announced that Aisha Bowe will be the first Black woman to travel on a commercial flight to space with Blue Origin founded by Jeff Bezos, Bowe has made it big in entrepreneurship. The...

Meet the co-founders who established the Black Film Space community to nurture aspiring Film-makers

Lande Yoosuf and Reggie Williams co-founded a non-profit organization called Black Film Space (BFS) in hopes of building a community of filmmakers of African origin through the means of skill enhancing...

Jamaican-American astronaut pays tribute to mom after first space mission 

On May 25, Christopher Huie, a Jamaican-American, became the 19th Black astronaut to embark on a space mission when he joined three other crew members for a test flight on the Unity 25 spacecraft. According...

This entrepreneur is behind the first woman- and black-owned co-working space in Minneapolis 

Alex West Steinman is the CEO and co-founder of the Minneapolis-based coworking space, The Coven, which is said to be the first woman and black-owned co-working space in Minneapolis. She founded the company...

Jean-Patrice, the Congolese rocket man determined to break the color barrier in space

All that Congolese engineer, Jean-Patrice Kéka, ever wanted as a child was to be extraordinary and live his dreams. He demonstrated this during his childhood when he built a sailplane out of raffia,...

These are the only five Black women to have ever traveled into space

According to the Federation Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), 631 persons have been to space, out of which about 70 are women. Out of the 70 women, only five Black women have made the history of...

Meet Frederick Drew Gregory, the first African American to pilot a spacecraft in 1985

He has achieved outstanding feats in the area of space, but when it comes to buzzing about achievements or giving credit to whoever is due, he somehow slips under the radar. Born on January 7, 1941, his...

Nialah Wilson-Small is first Black woman to earn Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from U.S. university

Botetourt native Nialah Wilson-Small became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University after successfully defending her dissertation last year. “It was...

The NASA aerospace engineer designing women’s clothes for space

Sabrina Thompson is a NASA engineer and the founder of the streetwear brand Girl in Space Club. She started the club as a way to get more women interested in STEM. Although the volume of women in science...

Mother rents billboard space to celebrate her daughter receiving her doctorate

A mother whose daughter recently earned a doctorate degree went the extra mile to celebrate her achievement after she rented billboard space in New Jersey to commemorate her academic milestone. According...

Gregory Robinson, the son of tobacco sharecroppers who fixed NASA’s giant space telescope 

This week, the world saw the “deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe” ever taken by the U.S. Space Agency, NASA. The milestone project was led by Gregory Robinson, a Black scientist...

Michael Strahan makes history as the first U.S. journalist to travel to space

Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan became the first U.S. journalist to travel to space when he completed a roundtrip flight on Jeff Bezos’ latest Blue Origin mission Saturday. “Yo!...

Antiguan woman to fly to space after winning competition

A 44-year-old mother from Antigua and Barbuda will soon be fulfilling a lifelong dream of flying to space after she won two seats on Virgin Galactic’s commercial space flight. Keisha Schahaff, who...

Sian Proctor makes history as the first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft

Astronaut and geology professor Dr. Sian Proctor wrote her name in the history books on Wednesday when she became the first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft. The 51-year-old will spend three days orbiting...

Meet Amoako Boafo, the Ghanaian painter whose art just launched into space on a Jeff Bezos rocket

After Blue Origin sent its founder Jeff Bezos on the company’s first passenger flight, the aerospace manufacturer on Thursday launched artwork painted on a capsule and a moon-landing navigation experiment....

Take a look at the first exclusive photos of ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ starring Lebron James

Basketball superstar Lebron James is set to take over the mantle of leading the Tune Squad in defeating another formidable but “villainy” hoops team in the Warner cartoon world after Michael...