Ed Dwight, almost America's first Black astronaut, will ride New Shepard rocket
Blue Origin has announced the crew flying on its NS-25. Former US Air Force Captain Ed Dwight is among the six aiming to travel aboard the reusable rocket past the Kármán line, the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
Dwight, now 90, is a notable inclusion since he joined the Aerospace Research Pilot School in 1961 and could have been America's first Black astronaut if things turned out differently. notes that he was chosen by President John F Kennedy to enter training as an Experimental Test Pilot with a view to becoming the first African American Astronaut candidate. However, three years after the death of Kennedy, Dwight left the military and entered private life.
Dwight is not the first almost-astronaut to finally get a chance to be launched into space atop Jeff Bezos' New Shepard rocket. Wally Funk, now 85 and a member of the Mercury 13 group of women,is William Shatner, who was 90 years, six months, and 22 days old when he visited space. The Star Trek actor seemed especially moved by his experience back in 2021."Everybody in the world needs to do this. Everybody in the world needs to see this," he said."It was unbelievable.
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