Guion Bluford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Guion Bluford

American astronaut

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1942

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: astronaut, engineer, military officer, aircraft pilot, aerospace engineer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Guion Stewart Bluford Jr., Ph.D.
(born November 22, 1942), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S.
Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, who is the first African American and the second person of African descent to go to space.
Before becoming an astronaut, he was an officer in the U.S.
Air Force, where he remained while assigned to NASA, rising to the rank of colonel.
He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992.
In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8, he became the first African American in space as well as the second person of African ancestry in space, after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.