America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally goes to space 60 years later on Bezos rocket

America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally goes to space 60 years later on Bezos rocket

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 was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 class. Dwight, now … Read more