Ed Dwight, who was America's first Black astronaut candidate in the 1960s, finally experienced space travel at the age of 90. Dwight was part of a Blue Origin flight.
Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for
’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 class. Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight. He called it 'a life changing experience.' ED DWIGHT, FIRST BLACK ASTRONAUT, REFLECTS ON HIS CAREER AT AGE 90 'I thought I really didn't need this in my life,' Dwight said shortly after exiting the capsule.
Dwight was among the potential astronauts the Air Force recommended to . But he wasn't chosen for the 1963 class, which included eventual Gemini and Apollo astronauts, including Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. 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 Tamayo Mendez, a Cuban of African descent. After leaving the military in 1966, Dwight joined IBM and started a construction company before earning a master's degree in sculpture in the late 1970s. He's since dedicated himself to art.
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