90-Year-Old Black Astronaut ‘Ecstatic’ About First Space Trip After Being Passed Over Decades Ago
Source: The Washington Post / Getty America’s first Black astronaut candidate has finally fulfilled his lifelong dream to travel to space. According to AP, Ed Dwight rocketed into space with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company for the first time on Sunday, since becoming a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corp in the early 1960s. Dwight served…