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The Untold Story of Black Astronauts Finally Gets Spotlight

FAILURE TO LAUNCH

NatGeo’s new documentary “The Space Race,” about the U.S.’s first Black astronauts, is an interesting but unfocused primer.

Vikram Murthi
Vikram Murthi 

Freelance Writer

Astronaut Guion "Guy" Bluford in the wind tunnel at NASA Glenn Research Center.
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/National Geographic and Getty Images
Vikram Murthi

Vikram Murthi

Freelance Writer

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