PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African American astronaut and a Bradley University graduate, was honored with a statue on Bradley’s Olin Quad on Friday.

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will embark on a mission ...

As the rockets fired against the Florida launch pad, Jemison was on her way to becoming the first woman of colour and first African-American woman ... necessarily as an astronaut; I thought ...

In the late 1770s, George Lisle, an emancipated slave, became a Christian in his master’s church and later started the first African-American Baptist church in Georgia. He is also thought to be ...

Ed Dwight Jr. was the first African American to be trained as an astronaut. In 1962, Dwight was selected for astronaut training at the urging of the Kennedy Administration.

They were among the six women who made a 10-minute trip on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, as the first all-female space ...

The first African-American woman to fly in space, Mae Jemison (1956-) holds a B.S. in chemical ... Jemison was a co-investigator on the bone cell research experiment flown on the mission. She was also ...