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May 2018 will be a historic month for Jeanette Epps as she will become the first African American female Astronaut to work as a crew member on the International Space Station and call it home for six months.  Epps will be the fourteenth African-American in space and the the fourth African-American women in space.  The first […]

Do you remember The Jetsons? By 2020 Uber and NASA are working on a way to get you around the same way they did on The Jetsons. According to Reuters, NASA and Uber signed a deal to work on software for a flying taxi service.  They will be working on an entire traffic system for […]

#BlackGirlMagic immortalized!

On this day in 1978, NASA graduated its first group of Space Shuttle astronauts which signaled a new day for the space program. Among the group of 35, three Black men went on to leave their mark on history as explorers of space. Maj. Frederick D. Gregory of Washington, Col. Guion Bluford of Pennsylvania, and […]

Astronaut Jeanette Epps will make history as the first African-American astronaut to fly on board the International Space Station as a flight engineer during an expedition in May 2018.

    According to ABC News former NASA astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn has passed away at the age of 95 in his home state of Ohio after being treated at the James Cancer Hospital on the campus of The Ohio State University.  Glenn served as senator of the Ohio for four terms but […]

Growing up the only child of divorced parents in rough southeast D.C., Taraji P. Henson remembers, “My mother would be sitting at the table crying over a bill, and I’d walk in and be like, ‘Mom, don’t cry, I’m going to be rich one day!’” “We never lived in the projects, but we were in the […]

A museum will also go alongside the memorial to trace the country's history from slavery to present day. The structure is slated to open in April 2017.

“Hidden Figures,” a movie with Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae, about African American women involved with NASA’s early missions, films in Canton this month. The movie, also with Kevin Costner, is based on the nonfiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly, “Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race.” […]

  The federal space agency NASA ushered in a new era by integrating workplaces across several regions in the Deep South. Morgan Watson, considered NASA’s…

Charles Bolden Jr., NASA’s first Black administrator, was nominated for the post in 2009 by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate that same…

Aprille Ericsson is award-winning aerospace trailblazer who achieved a pair of historic firsts as part of her engineering career. Dr. Ericsson is the first woman…