A new NASA documentary will premiere on Juneteenth and feature the achievements of many black astronauts.
"The Color of Space" will be available to watch starting at 12 p.m. The sun goes down at 1700GMT. You can watch it on NASA TV, the NASA app, NASA social media channels, and the agency's website.
There will be a free, in-person screening at Howard University in Washington on Saturday at 7pm.
Seven current and former Black astronauts, each of whom were selected to become part of NASA's Astronaut corps and train for missions to space, are the subject of a documentary.
NASA's first black administrator spoke out against racism.
Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the US. It is the 150th anniversary of the freeing of 250,000 slaves in Texas by the Union army.
The Thirteenth Amendment of 1863 abolished most forms of slavery in the United States, but Confederate states ignored the amendment during the Civil War.
There were many difficult decades in the Black community after Juneteenth. Some examples include institutions shutting down access to forms of wealth such as home ownership and bank accounts, the Jim Crow era of so-called "separate but equal" facilities, and violence and threats against Black people.
Black people in space exploration are celebrated in the documentary. Jessica Watkins is conducting the first long-term stay by a female Black Astronaut on the International Space Station.
Current and retired astronauts are included in a documentary about astronauts.
If things had gone differently when he was a football player, he could have ended up in prison instead of at NASA.
During a March 25 event at Space Center Houston, astronauts talked about their journeys and their motives. The first black woman to head a NASA center moderated the panel.
The agency said that other black astronauts are also featured. There are rare archival footage and interviews with Guion 'Guy' Bluford, the first Black man in space, as well as Charlie Bolden, the first Black NASA administrator, and former astronauts.
Even though the space program started flying people in 1961,Bluford was the first black person in space.
In a 2020 Space.com interview, Bolden talked about the systemic racism he faced throughout his career, and called for more representation in the astronauts office by both women and minorities.
Black Americans have contributed to the space program for a long time. The "Hidden Figures" made important contributions to the early years of NASA.
The first black person to complete a long-duration mission in 2020-21, as well as the first black female to pilot a space mission in 2021.
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