Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Space Question
Message-ID: <3396@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Dec-83 23:40:47 EST
Article-I.D.: utzoo.3396
Posted: Sat Dec  3 23:40:47 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Dec-83 23:40:47 EST
References: <4994@mgweed.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Lines: 15

Walt Scott asks:

	What is the name of the first black astronaut?

Depends.  Do you mean the first black man to be officially an astronaut,
or the first black man to fly in space as an astronaut?  And how black
is black?  The first question is relevant because the USAF Manned Orbiting
Laboratory project in the early 60's had its own group of military
astronauts, which included one black pilot.  M.O.L. was cancelled and he
never flew.  The second question is relevant because the Soviet Union's
Intercosmos program has flown at least one Cuban, and some people call
anyone with even slightly dark skin "black".
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry