All Mercury astronauts came from the fighter pilot community. But one of them had a career that really stands out. It was the ...

More importantly, the Panther could take a hit and keep flying. Two Korean War pilots who went on to become astronauts—John Glenn and Neil Armstrong—were kept safe by the Panther’s sturdiness.

The Black Panther is the first superhero of African descent to appear in mainstream American comics, ... and his childhood dream of being an astronaut. Companion book: Afrofuturism: A History of Black ...