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Americas first Black astronaut candidate finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos rocket company on Sunday...
Ed Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASAs early astronaut corps..
Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight..
The brief flight from West Texas made Dwight the new record-holder for oldest person in space nearly two months older than Star Trek actor William Shatner was when he went up in 2021...
But he wasnt chosen for the 1963 class, which included eventual Gemini and Apollo astronauts, including Apollo 11s Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins..
