HOUSTON — Dr. Bernard Harris, the first African American to walk in space, is set to be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall ...

Floating 130 miles above Earth, tethered to the Space Shuttle Discovery ... Harris stepped beyond the spacecraft, becoming the first Black astronaut to perform a spacewalk. The sight of Earth ...

First black hole discovered Albert Einstein first ... by the dark object — an all-consuming black hole. According to the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) approximately one out of ...

Temple native and astronaut Bernard Anthony Harris blazed a trail that took him to outer space — as the first ...

Mary Jackson, NASA’s first Black female engineer, broke barriers and shifted the narrative for future generations of scientists.

America's experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race are well documented ... when the White House and NASA scrambled to put the first black astronaut into orbit.