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Feb 12, 2024 · Amna Nawaz: A new documentary explores the little known stories of the first Black pilots and engineers who became astronauts, pioneers of NASA's space program. Geoff Bennett has this look at the ...
Marc Daniels directed "Space Seed." He'd collaborated with Gene Roddenberry on the show, The Lieutenant. One of his episodes of The Lieutenant, “In the Highest Tradition,” featured three future Star Trek actors, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett, and Gary Lockwood. Daniels directed a total of 14 TOS episodes and penned the Star Trek: The ...
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A story distributed nationally in the black press relates one racially charged incident: A few days into the protest, four African-American students, William Pearson, Leon Felder, Bertha Burl, and ...
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The fact that it took NASA more than 20 years to send astronauts of color to space speaks to a larger question that has vexed the space agency for decades: How can NASA increase opportunities for African Americans and other people of color? 1. READ MORE: Meet Four African Americans Making a Difference in Aviation NASA says African Americans represe...
But why did it take 22 years for NASA to send a Black astronaut to space—and 31 years to send an African American woman? Bolden says the excuse at the time was, there were no qualified Black astronauts available in the astronaut pool. “When you look at people to fly in space, you say, ‘OK, who’s in the pool?’ And the pool was all white males. That’...
When Bolden took the reins as NASA administrator in 2009, he made it clear that diversity and inclusion were going to play an integral part of NASA’s strategic decision-making and everyday workplace interaction. During his tenure in 2016, NASA held its first Mission STEM Summit, aimed at creating a pipeline for a future diverse workforce. Mission S...
Now, NASA has decided to take an even closer look at itself. Last year, NASA launched an internal initiative called Mission Equity, described as “a comprehensive effort to assess agency programs, procurements, grants, and policies, and examine what potential barriers and challenges may exist for communities that are historically underrepresented an...
Before the first woman and person of color journey to the lunar surface, NASA has planned two missions leading up to the historic moonwalk. Artemis I will be an uncrewed test mission and Artemis II will be a flyby mission with a crew of four. Who will be the first? So far, NASA hasn’t announced any specific crew assignments. However, astronauts hav...
NASA’s decision to publicly announce that Artemis would put the first woman and the first person of color on the moon was “unfortunate,” Bolden says. “It puts undue pressure on whoever the first woman selected, or the first African-American, or Indian, or Native American or whoever it is,” he says. “Those people—the one or two—are going to have to ...
The Enterprise discovers an ancient spaceship carrying genetically enhanced supermen from late 20th century Earth and their enigmatic warlord leader: Khan Noonien Singh. In 2267, the USS Enterprise encounters a spacecraft floating in deep space, sending out a signal in Morse code. Captain Kirk recognizes it as being similar to the DY-500 class, but Spock points it out as being the much older ...
Oct 1, 2015 · Charles Smoot left a job teaching chemistry in a segregated high school and traveled the country recruiting black engineers and scientists for NASA—a challenging task given their understandable skepticism about moving to NASA's locations in the Deep South. To provide a supply of talent, Smoot helped organize a co-op program at Southern ...
In 2005 Kwatsi Alibaruho '94 became NASA's first black Mission Control flight director on duty, a position then occupied by only 58 people since the beginning of the American space program. Alibaruho was part of the 2005 cohort of flight directors, the second largest ever appointed and the most diverse at the time.
