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August 23, 2020
The year 2020 is full of disasters. In addition to dealing with a pandemic and political tension, an asteroid is…
August 2, 2020
Two Astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who rode on the SpaceX's Crew Dragon, landed safely in the Gulf of…
Mary W. Jackson theGrio.com
June 25, 2020
NASA announced on Wednesday that its headquarters in Washington, D.C. will be renamed Mary W. Jackson—one of the engineers known…
March 4, 2020
The Black In Space documentary focuses on Ed Dwight who was an Air Force pilot and the first Black astronaut…
Nia Long
February 24, 2020
Nia Long will star in Dreams of the Moon, a true-life story of a Black teenage girl who someday hopes…
Katherine Johnson
February 24, 2020
NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA's early space missions, has died at 101 years old.
May 20, 2019
India Jackson, a grad student at Georgia State University wanted to be part of a prestigious NASA internship, but didn't…
Katherine Johnson NASA thegrio.com
February 24, 2019
NASA has renamed a facility in Fairmont West Virginia to the Katherine Johnson IV&V Facility in honor of the Hidden…
NASA thegrio.com
August 6, 2018
Senegal and Columbia served as ground zero for NASA’s New Horizons space program.
Katherine Johnson NASA thegrio.com
June 5, 2018
Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped astronauts return to Earth, is being honored at her alma mater with…
Mae Jemison
May 24, 2018
Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in space got a chance to have an emotional reunion with a man whose…
NASA black girls contest thegrio.com
May 3, 2018
Recently, three Black girls from D.C.’s Benjamin Banneker Academic High School entered the NASA Goddard‘s Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC) student…
Jeannette Epps thegrio.com
January 22, 2018
Jeanette Epps' brother says racism caused his sister to be kicked off of the International Space Station mission.
June 14, 2017
On Wednesday, NASA announced its first class of astronaut candidates since 2013. Out of a record number of 18,300 applicants,
June 5, 2017
It’s no doubt that intellectual curiosity, hard work and education were the essential ingredients that led to Dr. Ramsey Smith’s
January 12, 2017
Introducing “True Story with Natasha Alford” a new original series on theGrio. In our first episode, we look at the
January 5, 2017
For the first time ever, NASA will be sending an African-American astronaut to the International Space Station.
August 18, 2016
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Taraji P. Henson almost backed out of writing her autobiography because she was reluctant to…
August 15, 2016
#BlackGirlMagic alert: Oscar-nominated actresses Taraji P. Henson; Oscar winner Octavia Spencer; and, making her big screen debut, Janelle Monae are
July 4, 2016
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Janelle Monae says she's honored to be part of an upcoming film that tells the little…