Ed Dwight has officially made history! On May 19, Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-25 launched its first human flight in nearly ...
Ed Dwight had to wait more than 60 years to fulfil his ambition to go to space. In 1961, he was chosen by then US President John F Kennedy as the first black astronaut candidate in the country.
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 ...
The former Air Force pilot trained to become an astronaut in the 1960s but was never selected by NASA. On a Blue Origin ...
Ed Dwight, a 90-year-old sculptor from Denver, has become America's first Black astronaut and the oldest to fly into space.
Ed Dwight, NASA’s first Black astronaut candidate during the Space Race, became the oldest human in space on Sunday. Dwight, ...
Sunday's mission saw Dwight and five other passengers experience roughly 10 minutes of weightlessness aboard Blue Origin's ...
On Sunday, the 90-year-old became the oldest person to go to space. The Blue Origin spacecraft took a six-person crew to the edge of space before parachuting them back to Earth.