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| | First Black space commander: Col. Frederick Gregory makes history with second pioneering space effort. - ... |
 | | Gregory also was the first Black astronaut to pilot a space shuttle when, with a seven-member, all-male crew, he flew Challenger during a seven-day mission in April 1985. |
 | | It was from his father, Francis A. Gregory, now deceased, that Col. Gregory inherited a precocious passion for speed. |
 | | When he's not trekking among the stars, Col. Gregory catches up on family life with his wife, Barbara, and their children, Lt. Frederick Gregory Jr., an Air Force aeroengineer, and heather Lynn Gregory, a social worker in San Diego. |
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