The man who almost became NASA’s first black astronaut in the 1960s explains why he never made it to space
Ed Dwight in the cockpit of an F-104 circa 1960s.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images “The Space Race” is a new documentary about some of the first black astronauts. NASA trained Ed Dwight and Robert Lawrence as astronauts in the 1960s. But NASA didn’t send an African-American astronaut into space until 1983. On August 30, 1983, NASA sent … Read more