Dr. Mae Jennison.
Tamayo-Mendez
The first African American man in space was Guion Bluford. his first flight was in 1983.guion "guy" bluford was the first African American to go into space; however, the first black man to go into space as quoted by Wikipedia:Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) was the first Cuban cosmonaut and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit. He was also the first Hispanophone and first Black person in space
Dr. Guy Bluford 1st black man Dr. Mae Jemison 1st black woman
The first American man to enter space was Alan Sheppard on May 5th, 1961.
James Derham
An african american.
No, John Glenn was not the first man in space. The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, who orbited the Earth on April 12, 1961. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962.
Alan Shepard
No, The first American in space was Alan Shepard who went into space about a month after Yuri A. Gagarin (first man in space) did.
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Yuri Gagarin was Russian, and the first man in space.
Alan Shepard was the first American in space flying the Freedom 7 mission on May 5, 1961.