Guion "Guy" Stewart Bluford Jr. is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, who was the first African American in space.[1]
Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University; enrolled in ROTC, attended flight school. Married Linda Tull.[4][3]
1966
Assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, and flew 144 combat missions.[3]
1974
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology. During his Air Force career, he was awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal (1984), the Legion of Merit (1993), three Defense Meritorious Service Medals (1986, 1992 and 1993), the Meritorious Service Medal (1978), ten Air Medals (1967) and the National Defense Service Medal (1965).
Defense Superior Service
Legion of Merit
Defense Meritorious Service
Meritorious Service
Air Medal
National Defense Service
1978
Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering, U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology. Selected by NASA in Astronauts Group 8. [5]
Retired from the Air Force and left NASA for the private sector, ultimately becoming President of Aerospace Technology, an engineering consulting organization in Cleveland, Ohio.
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"U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970"
Presbyterian Historical Society; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; U.s., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1907; Book Title: 1938-1964 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61048 #305483 (accessed 24 November 2022)
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr baptism on 21 Mar 1943 (born 22 Nov 1942), child of Guion Stewart Bluford & Lolita B. Bluford, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA.
1950 Census: "1950 United States Federal Census" United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: 5161; Sheet Number: 16; Enumeration District: 51-3074 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 62308 #245710172 (accessed 24 November 2022) Guion Bluford Jr (7), single son, in household of Guion Bluford (35) in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Born in Pennsylvania.
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