The man who nearly became NASA’s first Black astronaut in the 1960s explains why he never went to space
Ed Dwight in the cockpit of a 1960s F-104.Bettmann Archive / Getty Images “Space Race” is a new documentary about some of the first Black astronauts. NASA trained Ed Dwight and Robert Lawrence to become astronauts in the 1960s. However, NASA did not send an African American astronaut into space until 1983. On August 30,… Read More »