America’s first astronauts of the1960’s “Project Mercury”, envisioned a place where former astronauts could be honored. In 1990, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame was established. It is located at ...

The solution was to train a Black astronaut. The White House began searching for a Black pilot with all of the qualifications. It landed on Ed Dwight. “I had to be talked into it,” he said.

That basic color has saved countless astronaut lives. NASA didn't always have white spacesuits. Their very first manned spaceflight, Project Mercury, featured silver suits, but none of those ...

She did this as part of a NASA space shuttle astronaut class ... and not comprised of all white men. Kyra Sedgwick's Big Swing Productions developed and brought the project to Amblin and is ...