Let's Celebrate African American Astronomers!

February is Black History Month, so it's a perfect time for us to celebrate African-American astronauts!  Here is a list of some famous black astronauts.  Click on their names for more information about them.

• Benjamin Baneker - 1st African-American Astronomer. 
• Doctor Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker II - Famed solar physicist and x-ray astronomer. Chaired Challenger disaster commission. 
• Doctor Harvey Washington Banks - 1st African-American to Receive a PhD. in Astronomy. 
• Doctor Neil deGrasse Tyson - Frederick Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. 
• Doctor Beth A. Brown - NASA Astrophysicist.

• Robert Henry Lawrence - 1st African-American Astronaut. 
• Guion "Guy" Bluford - 1st African-American in Space. 
• Doctor Bernard Harris, Jr. - 1st African-American to walk in space. 
• Frederick Gregory - 1st African American to pilot a spacecraft, 1st African-American to command a spacecraft. 
• Doctor Mae Jemison - 1st African-American Woman in space. 
• Doctor Ronald E. McNair - Hero lost aboard Challenger. 
• Michael P. Anderson - Hero lost aboard Columbia.

* List complied by space.about.com