The Spaceriders

Blacks have always been there.

Whenever anything happens on Earth, we are there.

Even in space, we are there.

Today is dedicated to Black astronauts and astronaut-candidates, from Ed Dwight who was unceremoniously cashiered out of the astronaut corps, to those who lost their lives for it: Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr, Ronald McNair, and Michael Anderson, and all of those in waiting.

We, especially I, hold you all in highest esteem!

Ed Dwight; Michael P. Anderson; Michael E. Belt; Charles Bolden; Guion Bluford; Yvonne Cagle; Robert Curbeam; Alvin Drew; Jeanette J. Epps; Victor J. Glover; Frederick D. Gregory; Bernard A. Harris Jr.; Joan Higginbotham; Livingston L. Holder, Jr.; Mae Jemison; Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.; Ronald McNair; Leland D. Melvin; Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez; Robert Satcher; Winston E. Scott; Jessica Watkins; Stephanie Wilson.

The Wikipedia page below will take you to an index of each of our astronauts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_astronauts

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Blaxploitation movie of the day is that masterpiece in Afrofuturism “Space Is The Place” (1974) starring Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra.

The eponymous soundtrack to the movie is a sublime ode to the genius of Sun Ra.