NEW YORK (AP) — Ed Dwight grew up in segregated 1930s ... out of the blue inviting him to train to be an astronaut. Kennedy called his parents to congratulate them. Despite reservations, Dwight ...

Ed Dwight Jr. was the first African American to be trained as an astronaut. In 1962, Dwight was selected for astronaut training at the urging of the Kennedy Administration.

Lincoln University is paying tribute to the sculptor of Lincoln’s Soldiers’ Memorial – and the oldest person to travel to space – Ed Dwight ... for NASA’s early astronaut corps in ...