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Last year, the statue was vandalized and a large bronze panel was stolen ... the panels and other items displayed on the monument, Ed Dwight, was there for the rededication.

Ed Dwight told himself the same story for decades ... In 1986, when Bolden was on his first shuttle mission, Dwight gave him a bronze and silver sculpture of a T-38 training plane shooting ...

Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos' rocket company on Sunday.

Ed Dwight Jr. was the first African American to be trained as an astronaut. In 1962, Dwight was selected for astronaut training at the urging of the Kennedy Administration.