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Guion Bluford: Space Explorer
Written by Linda Barr
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The book is a biography of Guion Bluford, an aerospace engineer and the first African American astronaut in space. It tells about his love of airplanes as a boy and highlights his years as a pilot in the Air Force and as an astronaut and a space shuttle mission specialist for NASA.
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