Dr. Bernard Harris became the first Black man to do a space walk. His family watched nervously seeing him take off into space.

Ed Dwight could've been the first Black astronaut. The trail he blazed didn’t make it to space, but it got others there. Watch Party Newsletter Best TV shows of 2025 📺 Win $100 📚 The ...

More than 60 years after he was selected but ultimately passed over to become this country’s first Black astronaut, Ed Dwight finally made it to space. He flew aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard ...

Ed Dwight, 90, finally made it to outer space. Ed Dwight, 90, who became America’s first Black astronaut candidate under John F. Kennedy’s presidency has finally made it to outer space more ...

NASA didn’t select Black astronauts until 1978, and Guion Bluford became the first African American in space in 1983. Three years earlier, the Soviets launched the first Black astronaut, Arnaldo ...

Ed Dwight was to be the first Black astronaut. At 90, he’s finally getting his due. National Geographic's "The Space Race," premiering Monday, profiles Dwight as part of its chronicle of Black ...

At least 500 astronauts have traveled to space -- yet only 18 of those have been Black astronauts, according to NASA. "The Space Race," an upcoming documentary film directed by Lisa Cortés and ...

Harris, 65, was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in 1990 and completed his first mission, STS-55, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1993. He returned to space in 1995 on STS-63 aboard ...

Once President John F. Kennedy was in office, he made the space race to the moon a priority in the ongoing Cold War against Communist Russia. And he made integrating the astronauts a priority as w… ...

America’s first astronauts of the1960’s “Project Mercury”, envisioned a place where former astronauts could be honored. In 1990, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame was established. It is ...

America's first Black astronaut candidate finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company. Ninety-year-old Ed Dwight blasted off from West Texas with five other ...