Gordon Fletcher Bullock

Image: Gordon Fletcher Bullock’s life path took him to become one of the first Black engineers at NASA in 1962.
He was also one of Jordan H. Dancy’s grandsons.

Source: Black History in Edgecomb Co., NC.
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“He finished at W.A. Patillo High School [in Tarboro], went into the air force, stayed there for four years, and when he got out, he went to North Carolina A&T University and he majored in electrical engineering,” said Miller.

After landing his job with NASA, Bullock went to work at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. There, he made a big impact on the space industry and even helped engineer items to be sent on space shuttle missions.

“You may have heard of the movie ‘Hidden Figures,’
Mittie Miller, hist sister said.

“He worked with those women, Catherine Johnson and all of them. They worked at the same place. The women were mathematicians, and my brother was an engineer.”

Even after he retired from NASA after 37 years, Bullock enjoyed encouraging children in their love of science when he volunteered as a science fair judge in the Newport News School Division and as a tour guide in The Virginia Air and Space Museum.

Bullock passed away in 2001 from lung cancer.

Narrative source: Black History in Edgecombe Co., NC.