# Guion Bluford (@guion-bluford)

Guion Bluford is an aerospace engineer, Air Force officer, and former astronaut who became the first Black American in space.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Guion Bluford's public record._

## Topics

- [Engineering career](/@guion-bluford/engineering.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Four missions](/@guion-bluford/four-missions.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [STS-8](/@guion-bluford/sts-8.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nasa.gov/former-astronaut-guion-bluford/
- blog: https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/guion-bluford-first-african-american-space
- blog: https://www.astronautscholarship.org/guion-bluford.html

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "guion-bluford", "question": "…"}`.