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4 days ago · All in one place, every weekday morning. Decades after being poised to become America’s first Black astronaut, Ed Dwight will finally gaze upon Earth from space aboard Blue Origin’s NS-25 mission...
5 days ago · Kennedy wanted a Black astronaut. That's when President John F. Kennedy — eager to link his administration's push for civil rights to the country's early space exploration efforts — asked for a Black astronaut. At the time, it was test pilots who became astronauts, and there were no Black test pilots.
5 days ago · Edward J. Dwight Jr. has waited a long time for his ride into space. In the 1960s, he seemed poised to become America's first Black astronaut. That dream was never realized. Now, at age 90, he's about to finally get his shot, aboard a Blue Origin rocket. The opportunity is "a curiosity more than anything else," Dwight says.
1 day ago · Williams and Wilmore are scheduled for liftoff at 9:34 p.m. Central on Monday, May 6, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. They will be the first to launch aboard the Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on a ULA (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station.
5 days ago · Kennedy wanted a Black astronaut. That’s when President John F. Kennedy — eager to link his administration’s push for civil rights to the country’s early space exploration efforts — asked for a Black astronaut. At the time, it was test pilots who became astronauts, and there were no Black test pilots.
5 days ago · The crew entered quarantine on Tuesday (April 23) at NASA's Johnson Space Center, roughly a week after their last visit to KSC on April 16 to see Starliner make a six-mile (10-kilometer) journey ...
5 days ago · And at 8:33 a.m. EDT on 24 April 1990, Discovery roared into an orbit with a peak apogee of 380 miles (610 kilometers), higher than any human mission since Apollo 17. Discovery roars into space on 24 April 1990, carrying Hubble on its voyage of exploration. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de.
