- 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
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