Ed Dwight grew ... Kennedy's White House to join Chuck Yeager's test pilot program at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. That fabled astronaut breeding ground, the site of ...
More than 60 years after he became the United States’ first Black astronaut candidate, Ed Dwight finally flew to space. On Sunday, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket carried six people to and fr ...
NASA confirmed in a report that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano almost died during a spacewalk outside the International ...
The solution was to train a Black astronaut. The White House began searching for a Black pilot with all of the qualifications. It landed on Ed Dwight. “I had to be talked into it,” he said.
Six decades ago, John F. Kennedy's White House chose Ed Dwight to train and become the nation's first Black astronaut. Dwight, with some reticence, accepted the calling. But the young Kansas City ...
Narrator: What do Neil Armstrong, Ed White, and today's ISS astronauts ... That basic color has saved countless astronaut lives. NASA didn't always have white spacesuits. Their very first manned ...
On June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to perform ... From March 2015 to March 2016, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year in space, performing multiple spacewalks and setting ...