Black astronauts say 90-year-old Ed Dwight's 1st trip to space was 'justice'
Hours after his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three retired Black NASA astronauts who thanked ...
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Chosen to be the first Black astronaut, he got to space six decades later
Ed Dwight told himself the same story for decades: It didn’t matter that he never made it into space. Dwight was the first Black man selected for an American astronaut-training program in 1962.
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Decades after training, 90-year-old finally goes to space on Blue Origin flight
Ed Dwight had to wait more than 60 years to fulfil his ambition to go to space. In 1961, he was chosen by then US President John F Kennedy as the first black astronaut candidate in the country.
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Ed Dwight: First African American Candidate for Space
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.
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NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump’s Moves Against D.E.I.
Ed Dwight, met the qualifications, but NASA never selected him. A privately financed research program showed that women could pass the physiological tests that NASA used, but the space agency ...
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Kansas native Ed Dwight was to be the first Black astronaut. Now he's finally getting his due
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An Hour Writer Follows in Their Footsteps
“This trip is using lessons from the Underground Railroad to teach humanity,” says Walker, who has been leading tours for Footsteps to Freedom since it was founded 28 years ago by Cheryl and Hardy ...