Judy Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair were on the Challenger. One thing also some of the former astronauts no longer give out autographs. Most former astronauts charge anywhere from $30 to a couple hundred.
Posted on: July 20, 2012, 02:52:56 PM
Also first's for this group
First American woman in space: Sally Ride (June 18, 1983, STS-7)[3]
First African-American in space: Guion Bluford (August 30, 1983, STS-8)[4]
First American woman to perform an EVA: Kathryn Sullivan (October 11, 1984, STS-41-G)[5]
First mother in space: Anna Fisher (November 8, 1984, STS-51-A)
First Asian-American in space: Ellison Onizuka (January 24, 1985, STS-51-C)[6]
First African-American to pilot and command a mission: Frederick Gregory (April 29, 1985, STS-51-B; November 23, 1989, STS-33)
First American to launch on a Russian rocket: Norman Thagard (March 14, 1995, Soyuz TM-21)[7]
First American woman to make a long-duration spaceflight: Shannon Lucid (March to September 1996, Mir NASA-1)[8]
First American active duty astronauts to marry: Robert Gibson and Rhea Seddon[9][10]
First mother to be hired as an astronaut: Shannon Lucid
First Army astronaut: Bob Stewart
Several other firsts also.
Also Haise, Engle, Truly were on the first test drops of the shuttle.
Also several of these were either Gemini or Apollo astronauts.
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