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2 days ago · May 19, 2024 8:38 AM PT. VAN HORN, Texas —. America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Ed Dwight ...
1 day ago · The rocket launched at 9:36 a.m. from the site in West Texas. Dwight was selected by President John F. Kennedy to be the first Black astronaut in 1961. Shortly after Kennedy was killed, Dwight was ...
1 day ago · 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 ...
2 days ago · Ed Dwight, the man who six decades ago nearly became America's first Black astronaut, made his first trip into space at age 90 on Sunday along with five crewmates aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard ...
1 day ago · The 'tube that swallows light'. "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" ends with an unstable truce between Mae and Noa, and the movie closes with them both staring up at the sky. Director Wes Ball ...
1 day ago · Although his appearance was relatively minor, the film played up Carpenter's friendship with Glenn, as played by Ed Harris. This film is based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe. In the 2015 ABC TV series The Astronaut Wives Club, Carpenter was portrayed by Wilson Bethel, and Rene Carpenter by Yvonne Strahovski.
