Black Astronauts
Across
- 2. first Black commander of a space shuttle in Nov 1989
- 4. third african american woman to go in space
- 8. first Cuban, first Latin American and first of Black heritage to fly in space
- 12. NFL player who made his first spaceflight in Feb 2008
- 13. the first and only Black astronaut to visit the Russian orbital facility
- 15. first Black woman pilot in space in Sept 2021
Down
- 1. the first Black woman to join a long-duration on the Crew 4 mission 2022
- 3. Died on the 1986 Challenger Mission that also included the 1st teacher
- 5. first Black astronaut to join a long-duration expedition crew aboard the space station
- 6. the most flown-in-space african american female
- 7. logged more than 680 hours of spaceflight time during 4 trips; Obama made him a NASA administrator
- 9. first orthopedic surgeon in space
- 10. physicist and aeronautical engineer who made 2 trips into space in 2007, 2011;currently a liaison for NASA & the DOD
- 11. physician, 1 of 6 to complete 44 life science & materials science experiments
- 14. tested tools/techniques to use during the the assembly of the space station 1996