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     Chosen to be the first Black astronaut, he got to space six decades later

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     Ed Dwight trained to be the first Black astronaut. Decades later, he finally made it to space.

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     63 Years Later, First Black Man Trained as Astronaut Goes to Space

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2. www.nytimes.com › 2019/07/16 › usEd Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why ...

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   Meanwhile, back at the base he has this incredibly tense relationship with Chuck Yeager, who is this celebrated figure in American flying, and who Ed says was calling him into his office...

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4. www.npr.org › 2022/07/05 › 1109678316Ed Dwight was in line to be the first Black astronaut ... - NPR

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   Jul 5, 2022 · Chuck Yeager was commander of the program at Edwards. Yeager was already an icon, esteemed for breaking the sound barrier in 1947. As commander, his word had influence on who would be...

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   In 1961, Chuck Yeager was running the Aerospace Research Pilot School (ARPS), a U.S. Air Force program that had sent some of its graduates into the NASA Astronaut Corps. Yeager said Curtis LeMay called and told him, " Bobby Kennedy wants a colored in space.

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     A friendly reminder that Chuck Yeager's racism deliberately derailed the career of America's first black astronaut, Edward Joseph Dwight.

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7. www.spokesman.com › stories › 202463 years later, first Black man trained as astronaut goes to ...

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   May 19, 2024 · Chuck Yeager, who ran the Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California, considered Dwight an average pilot who had been selected to be part of the program for...

8. www.businessinsider.com › ed-dwight-first-blackWhy Ed Dwight, NASA's 1st Black Astronaut Trainee, Never Went ...

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   Feb 14, 2024 · On August 30, 1983, NASA sent Guion Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, to space. Two decades before Bluford's flight, Ed Dwight was an Air Force pilot who trained to be the first...

9. www.independent.co.uk › news › ap-black-chuck-yeagerEd Dwight was to be the first Black astronaut. At 90, he's ...

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   Feb 9, 2024 · As Dwight progressed through the Air Force, he was handpicked by President John F. Kennedy’s White House to join Chuck Yeager’s test pilot program at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s...

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    How did Chuck Yeager get Dwight to quit?

    • Chuck Yeager was head of the test pilot school where Dwight would learn what he needed to know to go into space. Dwight said the famed pilot felt slighted and not being included in the decision to train a Black astronaut. As a result, Yeager actively worked to get Dwight to quit. "It was like walking into a deep freeze," Dwight said.

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    Who was Chuck Yeager?

    • Dwight receiving a citation from the Los Angeles Urban League. On the right is Chuck Yeager, then an Air Force colonel and the commandant at the Aerospace Research Pilots School. July 1963. George Brich/Valley Times Photo Collection/Los Angeles Public Library His budding fame did not matter to Yeager, though.

    Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That

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    Why did general Yeager want General Dwight removed?

    • Mr. Dwight has said that racism could have been the reason that General Yeager discriminated against him and wanted him removed. General Yeager graduated Mr. Dwight from the program, but he was not selected to be an astronaut.

    63 Years Later, First Black Man Trained as Astronaut Goes to Space

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    How did Ed Dwight become an astronaut?

    • Ed Dwight in January 1962. Dwight accepted the invitation, and was sent to the Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California to begin training. The most successful trainees would be chosen to become astronauts. "I had never faced competition like that," Dwight said of the training.

    Ed Dwight was in line to be the first Black astronaut. History had

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