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Guion Stewart "Guy" Bluford, Jr. (born November 22, 1942) is an engineer, and retired NASA astronaut. He attended pilot training at Williams Air Force Base, and received his pilot wings in 1966. He was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam where he flew 144 combat missions, 65 of which were over North Vietnam. In 1972, he entered the Air Force Institute of Technology residency school at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Upon graduating in 1974 with his master's degree, he was assigned to the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, as a staff development engineer. He has written and presented several scientific papers in the area of computational fluid dynamics. He was chosen to become a NASA astronaut in 1979. His technical assignments have included working with Space Station operations, the Remote Manipulator System (RMS), Spacelab systems and experiments, Space Shuttle systems, payload safety issues and verifying flight software in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) and in the Flight Systems Laboratory (FSL). He was a mission specialist on STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, and STS-53 (between 1983 and 1992). In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the mission STS-8, Bluford became the first African-American in space. With the completion of his fourth flight, he has logged over 688 hours in space. He left NASA in 1993. Bluford was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1997. In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed him on his list of 100 Greatest African- Americans. He was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2010.
