Guion S. Bluford's Achievements

Dewayne Boyer Sr., son of Annie Griffin and William was born on April 12, 1963 in Baltimore, Maryland at City Hospital. Dewayne affectionately known as Wookie, departed this life on June 22, 2016 suddenly.

One of seven children, Zebulon Reed Brockway was born on April 28, 1827 in Lyme, Connecticut. His father, also named Zebulon, was a wealthy businessman, politician, state prison commissioner, and philanthropist. In his autobiography, Zebulon Brockway refers to his father as a “man of importance in his time and place” (Brockway, 2012, p. 5). Among his father’s specific accomplishments were his service for 13 years as one of the directors of the state prison in Connecticut, and, in the 1850s, his elections to both the Connecticut House of Representatives and the Connecticut State Senate.

Onizuka's first major accomplishment was becoming the first Asian American in space. "Onizuka became the first Asian American in space in January of 1985 when he joined the crew of the Discovery for the shuttle program's first Department of Defense mission" (Encyclopedia.com, 2018). Onizuka was the type of person that never forgot where he came from. He remembers being a little kid in Hawaii and dreaming of becoming an astronaut. He feels he can have an impact on the next generation of young Hawaiians and minorities around the world.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1942, Guion S. Bluford was a decorated Air Force pilot in Vietnam before joining NASA in the late 1970s. In 1983, he became the first African American to travel into space when he served as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger. Bluford completed three more NASA missions, compiling 688 hours in space by the time of his retirement in 1993. Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. was born on November 22, 1942, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The son of a mechanical engineer and a special education teacher, Bluford grew up in a household where academic success was encouraged. He enrolled at Pennsylvania State University as a member of the U.S. Air Force ROTC program and graduated in 1964 with a degree

U.S. American John Glenn Jr. was not always good at school work, but with his parents motivation to do so he attended Muskingum College. Over the years of his life, John began to see the hard work being paid off. He began to take extra core classes to get his pilot license to fly in the United States Army Air Corps. After enduring that work it brought his attention with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Although John Glenn Jr. was known as a hard worker at his achievements, it was his upbringing and expectations that his parents brought upon him that prepared him for his reputations.

Mary Jackson was born April 9, 1921, Hampton, Virginia, U.S.A. She was a math genius and an aerospace engineer. most importantly she was the first African American female engineer to work and be the first flight engineers for NASA.

John Buford began his life on March 4, 1826 in Woodford County, Kentucky. His parents were John and Anne Bannister Buford. Buford’s mother died from cholera and then he moved with his family to Rock Island, Illinois (Hickman 1). John Buford started his training when he joined the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Prior to joining the U.S.Military Academy, he attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois for a year. Buford went on to graduate in the middle of his class while attending Knox College. Buford was assigned as a second lieutenant in the First Dragoon Regiment after graduation from

Who is Annie Easley? Maybe she was one of the four African Americans to work for NASA out of 2,500 employees. Or maybe she was a human computer, a mathematician, or a math technician? Who was Annie Easley?

Out of 2,000 she was one of the 15 chosen on June 4,1987 She had become the first African American women to be admitted into the training program. Unfortunately the challenger and columbia shuttle’s had just destroyed when she applied her resume because it took a while for NASA to recover. After completing extensive training she was assigned to the shuttle Endeavor for a 190 hour mission. On September 20,1992 Mae became the first colored women in space. Which she commented that “Society should recognize how much both women and members of other minority groups can contribute if given the

On July 19, 1941, the Tuskegee Institute, started by Booker T. Washington, opened its first aviation cadet class. This was also the first pilot class to open for African American students. Historically, this was a major point for all blacks in America. This was an invite to prove their mettle fighting and piloting alongside white men. This program was run by Col. Noel F. Parrish. Many black men were excited and jumped to join the bandwagon. In fact, Lt. Col. Dryden stated, “We had to be number one, whether we were mechanics, cooks, maintenance.. Nurses, pilots or whatever! We had to be number one! That’s was to be expected.” This was the mind set and they proved it.

William Golding was born on September 1911,in England.He had his education at Marl Borough Grammar School and then Oxford.His parents wanted him to study science ,however he didn't wish to complete his education as a scientist.Instead,in his second year at Oxford,he started to study English literature.After he graduated from Oxford,he began his career as a theatre actor.He also wrote poems at the time and went on his career as a school teacher.In 1940,William Golding took part in the Royal Navy because of the World War 2.The World War 2 influenced Golding in terms of humanity.His experiences during the war made him understand the wretched side of human beings.After the World War 2,William Golding kept on teaching and he began to write novels.His

Most people don’t know the backstory of one of the first African American women to help the first space launch. Katherine Johnson was one of them. They were called computers because they were African American. She affected the greatest history event of all time.It is a pleasure for me to tell you about the impact Katherine Johnson made in our lives till this day.

She also created and was the first Director of NASA’s Office of Exploration. When she completed her investigation, she was sent to Washington D.C, for long-range planning. After the incident, Ride produced a report entitled, “Leadership and America’s Future in Space.” (Ride). After Dr. Ride left NASA, she became a teacher; a professor actually. She wanted to make sure that students knew and got to love space just as much, if not more, as she did. As a Physics professor, in 1989 Ride joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego. She is also the Director of the California Space Institute at the university. Ride’s favorite subjects were always science and math, making NASA and teaching perfect careers for her; something she loved to do day in and out.

The Mercury Project was the next vast thing in scientific development and space travel in 1963. The Mercury Project “involved a series of six flights- two suborbital and four orbital”(Angelo 1).This project was the dream to put a human being into orbit, and to see if a human can withstand the acceleration, period of weightlessness, and high deceleration. The Mercury Atlas 9- the last craft to go on its mission with commander Gordon Cooper as the astronaut. Cooper became the first man astronaut to “sleep in space in orbit”. As he circled the Earth, “he also released a tiny minisatellite” that will stay in the orbit to complete data(Angelo 4). Atlas 9 was the last to orbit around the Earth which completed the Mercury Project! Cooper made it all the way to the 22nd orbit, which was the most in all the Atlas that went into the orbit. Suddenly during Cooper’s return to Earth, “the first significant malfunction of concern on the Mercury- Atlas 9 Mission occured”(Angelo 4). While Cooper was making final his orbit to return to Earth, the instruments malfunctioned on his spacecraft, which could have caused a total failure in his craft. Cooper had to use manual mode for his re-entry back to Earth, and was the first astronaut to successfully to do so. Coopers bravery will go down in history to this day. The Mercury Project of 1963 was a outstanding accomplishment for NASA, and was the start

Giotto is considered the first painter of the Renaissance and his painting, Lamentation, is a visual depiction of Europe’s transition out of the Middle Ages and into the new era. Born in 1270 in Vespignano Italy, very little of Giotto’s early life is known. He only became widely recognized when he started as an apprentice of Cimabue, one of the greatest painters of his time. Cimabue painted in Byzantine style which was an art form standardized during the Middle Ages. Byzantine art was concerned primarily with religious expression and was characterized by heavy lines and an overall flat quality.