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African Americans At America's Spaceport

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African Americans At America's Spaceport by Arthur H. Edwards chronicles many contributions of African Americans who provided direct support to America’s Space Programs at America’s Spaceport - Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Brevard County, Florida. This document  provides a glimpse of trailblazing black pioneers who supported NASA’s Spaceport operations beginning in the early 1960s as well as black high achievers who made notable manned space flight contributions at the Spaceport from the Apollo Era, including the first Man on the Moon historical launch, through the completion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011 and the early period of KSC transition to a Multi-user Spaceport. 

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African Americans At America's Spaceport by Arthur H. Edwards chronicles many contributions of African Americans who provided direct support to America’s Space Programs at America’s Spaceport - Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Brevard County, Florida. This document  provides a glimpse of trailblazing black pioneers who supported NASA’s Spaceport operations beginning in the early 1960s as well as black high achievers who made notable manned space flight contributions at the Spaceport from the Apollo Era, including the first Man on the Moon historical launch, through the completion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011 and the early period of KSC transition to a Multi-user Spaceport. 

African Americans At America's Spaceport by Arthur H. Edwards chronicles many contributions of African Americans who provided direct support to America’s Space Programs at America’s Spaceport - Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Brevard County, Florida. This document  provides a glimpse of trailblazing black pioneers who supported NASA’s Spaceport operations beginning in the early 1960s as well as black high achievers who made notable manned space flight contributions at the Spaceport from the Apollo Era, including the first Man on the Moon historical launch, through the completion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011 and the early period of KSC transition to a Multi-user Spaceport. 

The inspiring journeys, that each of these individuals traveled, provides a correlation of American political, social and economic changes that affected black employment in aviation & aerospace in general, and black employment at America’s Spaceport in particular. The historical ‘first person’ stories of struggles & triumphs of African Americans recorded in this book is not just Black Aerospace History – it is undeniably American History.