Ed Dwight could have been the only black astronaut in the 1960s – but politics got in the way. In 2024, at the age of 90, he ...
Following his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for ...
US President John F. Kennedy as the first black astronaut candidate in the US, Ed Dwight had to wait 60 years to travel into ...
Edward Dwight finally accomplished his dream after 60 years to travel to space at the age of 91. On Sunday, he travelled to ...
The former Air Force pilot trained to become an astronaut in the 1960s but was never selected by NASA. On a Blue Origin ...
Fresh off his flight back from Texas, Ed Dwight walked with CBS Colorado across the terminal at Denver International Airport ...
Ed Dwight told himself he didn’t care that he trained to go to space but didn’t make it. That changed when peers persuaded ...
At 90, Ed Dwight becomes the oldest person in space! His journey is an inspiration, defying age and breaking barriers. Read ...
Spread the loveSixty-three years after Ed Dwight, a young African American pilot in the U.S. Air Force, was selected to join ...
Ed Dwight, the first Black astronaut candidate in the US, made history at 90 by venturing into space aboard Blue Origin’s New ...
Ed Dwight was in the same class as Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but NASA did not select black astronauts ...
Ed Dwight, a 90-year-old sculptor from Denver, has become America's first Black astronaut and the oldest to fly into space.