#afroastronony

......Celestial Music...... #ThisWhatImOn #TheDernTruth #YallWorriedAboutTrapBeats #ImStudyingTheSoundsOfJupiter #SaturnSoundMadCrazy #MusiqueConcréte #OrbitOfTheFifths #ElectromagneticVibrations #Voyager1 #Voyager2 #NASA #StillConsideringAnAstroPhysicistDegree #RadioAstronomy #KnowledgeIsTheNewCurrency #AfroAstronony

Colonel Frederick Drew Gregory is NASA's 1st black shuttle commander. He commanded missions #STS33 on #Discovery, which was a night launch & #STS44 on #Atlantis. Piloting the #Challenger on the #STS51B mission, he amassed 456 hours in space. He has headed many branches of NASA. #FrederickGregory #TheDernTruth #AfroAstronony #20BlackAstronauts #NASA

On his logged 259 hours in space, Robert 'Bobby' Satcher, completed two spacewalks. Aboard mission #STS129, he became the 1st orthopedic surgeon & was apart of the 1st African American duo with #LelandMelvin. The #NASA astronaut was selected in 2004 and is also a #MIT graduate. He flew as a mission specialists on the 31st flight to the International Space Station. #BobbySatcher #NASA #AfroAstronony #TheDernTruth #Atlantis #20BlackAstronauts #BlackHistoryMonth

I've met @lelandmelvin a couple times & it's his radiant energy that has gotten him so far. The #NASA class of 1998 graduate, was also drafted by the Cowboys. Luckily, while waiting on his new gig to start he embarked on his journey thru space!! Aboard his two missions on #Atlantis, #STS122 & #STS129, he logged approx. 24 days in Earths lower orbit. He currently is NASA's Co-Associate Administrator for Education. I think he is set to retire this year tho. #LelandMelvin #TheDernTruth #AfroAstronony #20BlackAstronauts #BlackHistoryMonth

Selected on her 2nd application to join the Class of 1987, Mae Jemison, was the 1st African American woman in space! The Stanford graduate, was aboard #Endeavour as a Mission Specialists on #STS47. On that mission, she brought along an Alvin Ailey poster (Dancing is her passion) & logged a lil over 190 hours. The Chicagoan was apart of a joint mission with Japan which worked on the SpaceLab Japan. #MaeJemison #TheDernTruth #AfroAstronony #NASA #20BlackAstronauts #BlackHistoryMonth

Colonel Benjamin Alvin Drew, of NASA's Class of 2000, is my favorite astronaut!! As the last African American, he has logged little over 25 days in Earths lower orbit. He was a Mission Specialists aboard LA's own, #Endeavour #STS118, and completed 2 spacewalks on my fav #Discovery #STS133 (the pic is one I took of the #NASATV screen in 2011, cuz it was AMAZING). #AlvinDrew #TheDernTruth #AfroAstronony #BlackHistoryMonth

During Bernard Harris's 18 year career at #NASA, he was apart of many 'firsts'. He completed two lower orbit missions(#STS55 on #Columbia & #STS63 on #Discovery), logging 438 hours. Selected in the Class of 1990, he is the 1st to conduct a telemedicine conference from space, the first African American to spacewalk (approx 4.5 hrs), and was apart of the first Russian-American Space Program flight. #BernardHarris #TheDernTruth #AfroAstronony #20BlackAstronauts #BlackHistoryMonth

Ronald McNair, is probably the most known African American astronaut. Selected apart of NASA's Class of 1978, he was the second black astronaut in space and unfortunately was the second to die on the job. He served as mission specialist twice on the Challenger, in 84 & 86. The KIT graduate was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and was set to be the first to record an original piece of music in space. Sadly, the Challenger blew up 73secs after liftoff. #RonaldMcNair #Saxophonist #5ThDegreeBlackBelt #TheDernTruth #NASA #AfroAstronony #20BlackAstronauts #BlackHistoryMonth