Bezos resuming Blue Origin spaceflights with the man selected to be the nation's first Black astronaut — in 1961

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Ed Dwight, a former Air Force pilot who was the first Black astronaut candidate, will be a part of Blue Origin's 25th mission to space aboard the New Shepard rocket.

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The man who was almost NASA's first Black astronaut in the 1960s explains why he never made it to space

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Ed Dwight wears a flight suit and sits in the cockpit of an F-104.
Ed Dwight in the cockpit of an F-104 circa the 1960s.

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