It was Wednesday afternoon on Nov. 6, 1963, when I interviewed Capt. Edward J. Dwight Jr. at the Pentagon. He was 30, a U.S. Air Force jet fighter pilot with more than 1,500 hours of flying time ...
Ed Dwight became the oldest person to fly to space when he rode a Blue Origin capsule to 106 km earlier this year. At 90 years, 8 months, and 10 days old, Dwight was nearly two months older than ...
and has taken part in the ESA’s “Fly!” feasibility study, which assessed the challenges a disabled person might face in space flight. The study, he told scientific journal Nature last week ...
Blue Origin has launched the oldest person ... rocketplane to the edge of space, about 88 km up. While that’s not as high as the Blue Origin capsules fly, it is past the line that some ...