Russia's Salyut (quite literally "salute") beat NASA's Skylab into orbit in 1971 ... In 1967, he was the first black astronaut and a Vietnam combat pilot with 2,500 logged flight hours who ...

The Space Race is a new film from National Geographic that chronicles the history of Black astronauts in the early days of the space program. After Dwight, some other Black astronaut candidates ...

It wasn’t until 1983 that the first Black astronaut, Penn State alum Guion Bluford, flew to space. Dwight by then had taken up artistry, which would become his focus. Regardless of the cause of ...

Ed Dwight told himself the same story for decades: It didn’t matter that he never made it into space. Dwight was the first Black man selected for an American astronaut-training program in 1962.

Hours after his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three retired Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for forging a path for them to go into orbit and called his voyage ...

Dwight was on Blue Origin’s latest crewed space flight on May 19, decades after he was selected as the nation's first Black astronaut candidate Ed Dwight, the United States’ first-ever Black ...

"I needed to finish it," Dwight said. Hours after his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three retired Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for forging a path for them ...

VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — 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 ...