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Ed Dwight: America’s first Black astronaut candidate will finally get his flight to space at 90

Ed Dwight: America’s first Black astronaut candidate will finally get his flight to space at 90

90-year-old Ed Dwight will at long last be able to fly into space. Jeff Bezos’s space venture company recently revealed that Dwight, the nation’s first black astronaut candidate, will be one of the six members of the crew on Blue Origin’s planned New Shepard trip beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Blue Origin said in a statement, “[Dwight]…

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