Ed Dwight, America’ first Black astronaut candidate, finally goes to space 60 years later ...Middle East

VAN HORN, Texas — Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. 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 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 changing experience.” “I thought I really didn’t need this in my life,” Dwight said shortly after exiting the capsule. “But, now, I need it in my life. … I am ecstatic

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