- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 56 min., 46 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- NASA astronaut, aerospace engineer, military officer and engineering executive Guion S. Bluford, Jr., was born on November 22, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. degree from Pennsylvania State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Air Force Institute of Technology, each in aerospace engineering. After completing U.S. Air Force training in 1966, Bluford flew 144 combat missions in Southeast Asia as an F4C fighter pilot and trained future Air Force and West German fighter pilots as a T-38 instructor pilot. Bluford was selected for the austronaut program in 1978, interrupting his work as branch chief in the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory. He was the first African American to fly in space, and to return for his second, third, and fourth visits. He logged more than 688 hours in space. In 1993, Bluford retired from NASA and the U.S. Air Force to become a senior aerospace industry executive.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Guion Bluford
- Guion Bluford
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208817
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Guion Bluford.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
025646
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Westlake, Ohio 2013 May 9.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Astronaut Military Officer.
- Added Author
Bluford, Guion Stewart, 1942- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.