Following his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for ...
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 ...
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 ...
The former Air Force pilot trained to become an astronaut in the 1960s but was never selected by NASA. On a Blue Origin ...
US President John F. Kennedy as the first black astronaut candidate in the US, Ed Dwight had to wait 60 years to travel into ...
Ed Dwight was in the same class as Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but NASA did not select black astronauts ...