NASA photographer Josh Valcarcel captured Zena Cardman in a pose evocative of one of the first female astronaut's portraits.

The solution was to train a Black astronaut. The White House began searching for a Black pilot with all of the qualifications. It landed on Ed Dwight. “I had to be talked into it,” he said.

The webinar featured six trailblazing Black American astronauts: Charles Bolden, Frederick Gregory, Bernard Harris, Joan Higginbotham, Leland Melvin, and Robert Satcher. Teresa Clarke, founder of ...