Ed Dwight could have been the only black astronaut in the 1960s – but politics got in the way. In 2024, at the age of 90, he finally got his chance to go into orbit.
Humanity has entered a new age of space tourism. For a minimum of $450,000 , people with deep pockets can claim the title "astronaut" after a short sub-orbital flight to the edge of space and back and up to 10 minutes experiencing weightlessness above the Earth.
After training at Edwards Air Force Base, he was placed eighth as a contender for Nasa's Astronaut Group 3 in October 1963. Only the first seven were selected as famous the Mercury Seven. One month later, Dwight's astronaut career was effectively over. An American black astronaut would not go into space until 20 years later, when Guion "Guy" Bluford – also an aerospace engineer and USAF pilot – flew with Nasa. Bluford was part of the 35-strong astronaut class selected in 1978 for the Space Shuttle programme. It was the first time that astronauts were not all white, male or from a military background.
Space for Humanity, whose donations have placed people in space via Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, accepts applications to fly into space from anyone and often champions 'firsts' – sending the first Mexican-born woman and the first Egyptian into Space. Dwight, however, did not apply for his spaceflight.
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