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Mission Specialist Guy Bluford on STS-8

On the forward flight deck of Space Shuttle Challenger, STS-8 Mission Specialist Guion "Guy" S. Bluford sits in the commander's seat showing a U.S. Air Force decal.

 

Selected as part of NASA's Astronaut Group 8 in January 1978, Bluford remained in the U.S. Air Force throughout his career at NASA, rising to the rank of colonel. STS-8 was his first of four shuttle flights to space.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: S08-19-492

Date: September 5, 1983

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Taken on September 5, 1983