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First Black man to walk in space wants others to follow in his footsteps
He urges black youngsters to think about space-related careers. “They often want to aspire to be athletes or rappers but the best thing to enable one to take care of their family and themselves is education.”
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First African American spacewalker to speak in Dubai
Few speakers are better qualified in terms of both medicine and being in remote places than Dr Bernard Harris Jr. – the first African-American to walk in space and a man who has flown more than seven million miles as a NASA astronaut
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Hampton University receives $10.2 million NASA contract
University recently received a contract increase of $10.2 million from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to extend the NASA Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite mission for three more years.