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 ...

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, 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 ...

Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, poses for a portrait to promote the National Geographic documentary film "The Space Race" during the Winter Television Critics Association ...

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 ...

Ed Dwight, NASA’s first Black astronaut candidate during the Space Race, became the oldest human in space on Sunday.. Dwight, 90, traveled above the internationally recognized boundary, the ...

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 ...

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… ...

In “The Space Race,” astronaut Bernard Harris, who became the first Black man to walk in space in 1995, contemplates what a difference it might have made if Dwight had become an astronaut in ...

Ed Dwight, America’s first black astronaut candidate, will finally fly into space at age 90. The Air Force veteran will be among the six-person crew aboard Blue Origin’s upcoming New Shepard ...