# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guion-bluford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:32:08.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guion-bluford"
name: "Guion Bluford"
slug: "guion-bluford"
description: "Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. is an American aerospace engineer, retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, in which capacity he became the first African American to go to space. While assigned to NASA, he remained a USAF officer rising to the rank of colonel. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter  Challenger on the mission STS-8, he became the first African American in space as well as the second person of color in space, after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez."
tagline: "American astronaut (born 1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guion_Bluford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1942-11-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           18.942812
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump