Continue feeding your baby breast milk or formula â up to 32 ounces a day. Then: Start simple. Offer single-ingredient foods that contain no sugar or salt, and wait three to five days between each new food. This way if your baby has a reaction â such as diarrhea, rash or vomiting â you'll know the cause.
Guion Bluford Jr. was the first black man and Mae Jemison the first black woman to travel in space (in 1983 and 1992, respectively). Bluford is an engineer and was a colonel in the United States Air Force before participating in four space shuttle flights.
Among its crew: Leland Melvin, one of a few African Americans to ever travel into space. Melvin talks about his mission and his personal journey through America's space program. I'm Farai Chideya, and this is NEWS & NOTES. A month ago, Leland Melvin got his first taste of space. He helped crew the Shuttle Atlantis on its 13-day mission to the International Space Station. Melvin is one of only a handful of African-Americans to make it through astronaut training and into the skies, but he didn't plan on a NASA career.