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History, Biographies
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Posters
NASA selects astronauts from a diverse pool of applicants with a variety of backgrounds. From the thousands of applications received, only a few are chosen for the intensive Astronaut Candidate Program. This fact sheet lists those astronauts of African descent.
NASA’s African-American Astronauts Fact Sheet [670 KB PDF]