BLACK HISTORY, ASTRONAUT GUY BLUFORD/

 ON  AUGUST  30,   1983,  ASTRONAUT  GUY  BLUFORD   BECAME THE FIRST    BLACK ASTRONAUT   TO GO INTO SPACE...BEFORE  BECOMING A ASTRONAUT   ,GUY BLUFORD     WAS A  COLONIAL IN THE U.S. AIR FORCE//HE FLEW    COMBAT  MISSIONS   IN  THE   VIETNAM WAR....IN 1992,  ASTRONAUT  MAE  JEMISON  BECAME   FIRST   BLACK FEMALE ASTRONAUT  TO  GO  INTO  SPACE.//2  BLACK   ASTRONAUT   HAVE  BEEN KILLED   ABOARD     SPACE  SHUTTLES.IN 1986,  ASTRONAUT  RONALD MCNAIR  DIED  IN THE   SPACE SHUTTLE    CHALLENGER   TRAGEDY..IN 2003,   ASTRONAUT  MICHAEL ANDERSON   DIED    IN THE  SPACE  SHUTTLE    COLUMBIA,   DISASTER../////TAKES  A LOT OF  COURAGE  TO  GO  INTO  SPACE..//