Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being ...

“It was the white man ... That fabled astronaut breeding ground, site of “The Right Stuff,” might have turned Dwight into one of the most famous Americans and the first Black man in ...

but they were mostly black-and-white images. Hustling to capture the shot, Anders is heard on the on-board recorder asking fellow astronaut Jim Lovell, "Hand me a roll of color quick. Would you?

The solution was to train a Black astronaut. The White House began searching for a Black pilot with all of the qualifications. It landed on Ed Dwight. “I had to be talked into it,” he said.

In the 1960s, Ed Dwight was set to become the first Black astronaut. But this didn’t ... “It was the white man’s domain,” he stated. However, that all changed after he saw a photo in ...

Hours after his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three retired Black NASA astronauts who thanked ... Blue Origin/AFP via Getty Images "Now we have justice in getting ...

The first astronauts, the Mercury Seven, were all male and white. When the Aerospace Research Pilot School was established that November, the White House urged the Air Force to select a Black officer.

“It was the white man ... That fabled astronaut breeding ground, site of “The Right Stuff,” might have turned Dwight into one of the most famous Americans and the first Black man in ...

“It was the white man ... That fabled astronaut breeding ground, site of “The Right Stuff,” might have turned Dwight into one of the most famous Americans and the first Black man in ...

“It was the white man ... That fabled astronaut breeding ground, site of “The Right Stuff,” might have turned Dwight into one of the most famous Americans and the first Black man in ...