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Bookmark or Share- At 90, sculptor and former test pilot Ed Dwight is going to ...Edward J. Dwight Jr. is set to be on the next Blue Origin rocket into space. The rare opportunity comes more than six decades after he was passed over to become a NASA astronaut.
- He hoped to be the first Black astronaut in space, but never ...In 1961, Ed Dwight was selected by President John F. Kennedy to enter an Air Force training program known as the path to NASA's Astronaut Corps. But he ultimately never made it to space.
- Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why ...After Ed Dwight’s quest to reach space had ended, Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr. was selected as the nation’s first black astronaut in the summer of 1967. But later that year, he was killed in...
- Ed Dwight Was Going to Be the First African American in Space ...Captain Edward J. Dwight, Jr., the first African American selected as a potential astronaut, looks over a model of Titan rockets in November 1963. Bettmann Archive / Getty Images
- Ed Dwight - WikipediaEd Dwight. Edward Joseph "Ed" Dwight Jr. (born September 9, 1933) is an American sculptor, author, and former test pilot. He is the first African American to have entered the Air Force training program from which NASA selected astronauts. He was controversially not selected to officially join NASA.
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