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Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally goes to space 60 years later
VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Ed Dwight ... for the 1963 class. Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed ...
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Decades after training, 90-year-old finally goes to space on Blue Origin flight
Ed Dwight had to wait more than 60 years to fulfil ... 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 ...
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Ed Dwight trained to be the first Black astronaut. Decades later, he finally made it to space.
Ed Dwight, America’s first ... he launched alongside five others in Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket system. He emerged from the capsule after landing and thrust both fists into ...
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Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, finally goes to space 60 years later
Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight. He called it ''a life ...