In 1989, aboard Discovery, Frederick D. Gregory became the first black commander of one of these missions
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Free Flashcards about FIRSTS - StudyStack  IN 1989, ABOARD DISCOVERY, FREDERICK D. GREGORY BECAME THE FIRST BLACK COMMANDER OF ONE OF THESE MISSIONS, SPACE SHUTTLE...
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Col. Frederick Drew Gregory | The HistoryMakers  Jul 27, 2007 ... Frederick Drew Gregory, Sr. was born on January 7, 1941 in Washington, ... in 1976 and was selected as one of thirty-five astronauts by NASA in 1978. ... In 1989, Gregory became the first African American space commander when he commanded the mission STS-33 on board the space shuttle Discovery.
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Former NASA Deputy Administrator Frederick D. Gregory | NASA  Feb 28, 2005 ... Frederick D. Gregory became NASA's deputy administrator on Aug. ... of Associate Administrator, Office of Safety and Mission Assurance. ... as spacecraft commander aboard Discovery (STS-33) in 1989, and as ... In 2004 and 2005, he was designated one of the 50 Most Important Blacks in Technology.
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Frederick D. Gregory Oral History - Johnson Space Center - NASA  Gregory: There were very few commanders, and just by rotation you could ... I flew the Space Shuttle Challenger first and then Space Shuttle Discovery and ... So he was just one more of the rookies, but I'll tell you, once the crew became one, ... Gregory: Well, the one in '89 on STS-33 was a highly classified mission, and so...
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Frederick D. Gregory - Wikipedia  Frederick Drew Gregory (born January 7, 1941), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is a former United States Air ... Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ... Gregory became the first American with an African lineage to pilot a space craft ... any space mission with the launch of STS-33 in 1989 on the orbiter Discovery,...
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1789)  The true story of the the 1789 mutiny on the Bounty is far more complicated than ... and his mate, the sensitive and proud Fletcher Christian, led to, among other ... the status "master and commander" and the other commissioned officers and...
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Robert H. Goddard: American Rocket Pioneer | Smithsonian ...  Solomon Brown: First African American Employee at the Smithsonian Institution ... On March 16, 1926, Goddard successfully launched the world's first flight of a ... 1929, when Goddard tested the first rocket to carry scientific instruments, with a...
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Matthew Henson - Wikipedia  Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866  March 9, 1955) was the first African-American Arctic explorer, an associate of Robert Peary on seven ... By presidential order, in 1988, the remains of Henson and his wife were reinterred with .... Thirty two years after he died, his body was moved to Arlington National Cemetery.
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Arnaldo Tamayo Mndez - Wikipedia  Arnaldo Tamayo Mndez (born January 29, 1942) was the first Cuban and the first black person in space; he was proclaimed at the time as the first black cosmonaut. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in ... Since 1980, he has been a Deputy in the Cuban National Assembly,...
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Peary and the North Pole 100 Years Ago Today  National ...  Apr 6, 2009 ... Peary had made a number of attempts to reach the pole prior to his 1908-1909 expedition. ... the ship used by Robert Peary on his 1908-1909 expedition. ... was about African-American Matthew A. Henson, who accompanied Peary on ... when he and his team believed they were the first to reach the North...
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Operation Deep Freeze - Wikipedia  As early as 1839, Captain Charles Wilkes led the first U.S. Naval expedition into Antarctic waters. In 1929, Admiral Richard E. Byrd established a naval base at...
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A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (Matthew Henson) - LibriVox  Dec 12, 2014 ... Far less celebrated is his companion, Matthew Henson, a black man from Maryland. Henson's gripping memoir, first published in 1912, tells this...
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Matthew Henson - Wikipedia  Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866  March 9, 1955) was the first Arctic explorer, on ... Henson published his memoir, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912). ... were reinterred with a monument at Arlington National Cemetery, near that for .... In a 1988 article, Counter noted that these two women had letters and...
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A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press ...  Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was born a slave. He ... He sailed around the world for the next several years, educating himself and becoming a skilled navigator. A black ... In 1912 Henson wrote the book A Negro Explorer at the North Pole about his arctic exploration. Read more...
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Vasco da Gama's Voyage of 'Discovery' 1497 | South African History ...  Jun 14, 2013 ... Vasco da Gama carried out 2 expeditions between 1497 and 1502. ... this expedition that Vasco da Gama's crew landed in South Africa. ... The reason why groups often state their arrival on some foreign land as a "discovery" is because, ... on *4 November 1497, they reached a bay (current day St Helena).
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Mutiny on the Bounty - Wikipedia  The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain Lieutenant William Bligh and set him and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. ... Relations between Bligh and his crew deteriorated after he began handing...
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Richard E. Byrd - Wikipedia  Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25, 1888  March 11, 1957) was an ... Byrd claimed that his expeditions had been the first to reach both the North Pole ... On June 8, 1912, Byrd graduated from the Naval Academy and was ..... loan from the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He was a...
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Siva Vaidhyanathan - Copyrights and copywrongs - Scribd  Bill Stott first s u g g e s t e d I p u r s u e a n a c a d e m i c career, a n d I will .... M a r x declared that he h a d recently discovered that in 1471 F e r d i n a n d B a l b o a ...... d to the interests of a u t h o r s to r e n e w their m o n o p o l y protection. ...... historical record of the case a n d p u r c h a s e d the rights to Black Mutiny.
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West Point grad, aboard shuttle, will make spacewalk  Nov 15, 2008 ... WEST POINT  A West Point graduate is rocketing toward the final ... and he plans to take some Army memorabilia into orbit with him. ... 1950, commanded the first flight around the moon on Apollo 8 in 1968. ... He was the second person to walk on the moon (Commander Neil Armstrong was first) and took...
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Tamayo Mndez, Arnaldo (1942- ) | The Black Past: Remembered ...  Brigadier General Arnaldo Tamayo Mndez, a Cuban of African descent, was the first ... Yuri Romanenko flew together aboard Soyuz 38, departing September 18, 1980. ... From Salyut 6, the two men and other crew members carried out 27...
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Freed slaves in Sierra Leone | World news | The Guardian  Aug 30, 2005 ... In 1787 a small fleet set sail from London to Sierra Leone. For the hopeful black passengers and their white abolitionist benefactors, ... utopian venture - to establish the first colony of freed slaves in Africa. ... home;  world;  africa .... to protect the busy British slave-trading depot on Bance Island, a little way...