GS 'Guy' Bluford, Jr. - 22.11.1942

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Guion Stewart 'Guy' Bluford, Jr. jest 126 człowiekiem w kosmosie.
Jego 4 loty w okresie 1983-1992 w programie STS trwały łącznie 28d 16h 35m 41s.
Nie jest jedynym Murzynem, który 4. razy odbył lot kosmiczny, ale pierwszym, który tego dokonał.
Bluford dołączył do cyklu szkoleniowego astronautów NASA w 1978 jako jeden z trzech Afroamerykanów w swojej grupie.

Ikoniczna postać załogowej astronautyki.

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bluford_guion.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/former-astronaut-guion-bluford/

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/bluford_guion.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/b/bluford.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/b/bluford-g.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00125.htm
http://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/bluford-jr-guion-stewart.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/crossroad/125.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/bluford126ru.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guion_Bluford
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guion_Bluford
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guion_Bluford

Bluford: In January, 1978, NASA announced their selection of the astronauts for the eighth astronaut class. I heard about the announcement over the radio as I drove to work one Monday morning. I assumed that I had not been selected for the program when I heard the news. I made the assumption that NASA had already notified the finalists of their selection, and they were about to make the selection public. However, after arriving in the office, I received a call from Mr. George Abbey, who informed me that I had been selected. Mr. Abbey was head of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate (FCOD) at JSC. He told me not to divulge my selection to anyone until after NASA made the announcement to the press at 12:00 EST that day. I later discovered that NASA had called all two hundred finalists that morning and told them of their decision. Unfortunately, January was a bittersweet month for me. My mother had called me earlier in the month and told me that she was ill and that the doctors had given her only six months to live. As promised, I kept the announcement to myself, except for calling my wife to let her know of NASA’s decision.

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/BlufordGS/BlufordGS_8-2-04.htm

https://www.astronautscholarship.org/Astronauts/guion-s-bluford-jr/
https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/guion-bluford
https://www.nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/guion-s-bluford-jr/

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/quietly-soaring-history-first-african-american-space
https://nationalaviation.org/enshrinee/guion-guy-s-bluford-jr/
https://www.psu.edu/news/campus-life/story/penn-state-honor-astronaut-col-guion-guy-bluford-jr/

https://www.ensco.com/news-media/press-releases/ensco-dr-guion-bluford-induction-to-national-aviation-hall-of-fame
https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2022/02/11/first-african-american-in-space-guion-bluford/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-african-american-in-space

https://www.tumblr.com/blackkudos/167742225702/guion-bluford
https://littleastronomy.com/guion-bluford-biography-for-kids/

https://www.nasa.gov/history/guy-bluford-remembered-30-years-later/
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/dr-guy-bluford-reflects-on-40th-anniversary-of-historic-shuttle-flight/

https://twitter.com/FXMC1957/status/1384060463344853000

19 April 1982. NASA named Guion Bluford as the first black American astronaut. On 30 August 1983 he became the first African American to travel into space on the third mission of  the space shuttle Challenger.

Happy birthday to Guion “Guy” Bluford, the 1st African American person in space, born #OTD in 1942. Bluford, an Air Force fighter pilot, blasted off aboard shuttle Challenger on Aug. 30, 1983, 2 months after Sally Ride became 1st American woman in space.⁠ https://go.nasa.gov/3fMRh5c

https://twitter.com/SallyRideSci/status/1595085208306565122

22 novembre
Joyeux anniversaire (81) à Guion S. Blufford🎂🎂🎂
(Sélectionné en 1978 - 4 vols spatiaux : STS-8 / 61A / 39 et 53 soit 28 jours 16 heures 33 minutes dans l'espace)

https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1727221624867328390

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Wywiad z byłym astronautą

Astronaut Guion "Guy" Bluford on What It Meant To Be the First Black Man to Fly in Space


Great Lakes Science Center.’ AMBER N. FORD

(...)De’Aundre Barnes: What would you tell someone who wants to pursue a career as an astronaut, or in aerospace engineering?

Guion Bluford: I tell kids to chase their passions. I did not know as a kid that I would want to be an astronaut. I didn’t even think about flying. But I did find that I was passionate about airplanes. I wanted to learn as much as I could about them. And my whole career has been geared toward learning as much as possible about airplanes and spacecraft.

The possibility of being an astronaut is very small. We just selected astronauts maybe a couple of years ago; 18,000 people applied, and only 12 got selected. So you want to make sure that you’re doing a job that you really enjoy, even if you don’t become an astronaut. (...)
https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/a36634334/guion-guy-bluford-interview/

Guy Bluford, NASA's First African-American Astronaut

https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1727501239275880851

Happy birthday to astronaut Guy Bluford!
Born today in 1942, Bluford became the first African American in space on STS-8. He holds a doctorate in aerospace engineering and flew F-4C fighters for the Air Force in Vietnam. Learn more about Bluford: https://s.si.edu/45RJwze