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Ed Dwight emerges from the Blue Origin NS-25 capsule after he and five other tourists were launched to the edge of space on Sunday, May 19, 2024. Dwight, a 90-year-old retired Air Force captain, was selected by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to be the nation's first Black astronaut candidate. Despite completing training at the Aerospace Research Pilot School and receiving an Air Force recommendation, Dwight ultimately didn't make the NASA Astronaut Corps. He went on to become an entrepreneur and a sculptor; a new National Geographic documentary on Black astronauts, “The Space Race”, highlights Dwight's pioneering story. (Photo by Felix Kunze/Blue Origin)
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