Following his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for ...
The former Air Force pilot trained to become an astronaut in the 1960s but was never selected by NASA. On a Blue Origin ...
It’s a trip he’s waited over six decades to take. At 90 years and 8 months old, Ed Dwight is officially the oldest person ...
Spread the loveSixty-three years after Ed Dwight, a young African American pilot in the U.S. Air Force, was selected to join ...
Fresh off his flight back from Texas, Ed Dwight walked with CBS Colorado across the terminal at Denver International Airport ...
Ed Dwight, a 90-year-old sculptor from Denver, has become America's first Black astronaut and the oldest to fly into space.
Hours after his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three retired Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for forging a path for them to go into orbit and called his voyage ...
Ed Dwight, the pioneering African American who came close to becoming America’s first Black astronaut six decades ago, ...
Ed Dwight, 90, who became the first black astronaut after being nominated by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, will finally get his chance to go into space on a Blue Origin ship. Civil rights ...