#eddwight — Public Fediverse posts
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Black Space Week 2024 at the NMAAHC 🧑🚀
#Astronaut #BlackSpaceWeek #CommercialCrewProgram #DC #DavidMiller #DepartmentofCommerce #DonGraves #EdDwight
⏩ 29 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=29&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20240619010602
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#EdDwight, #America's first #Black #astronaut #candidate, becomes #oldest #person to reach #space.
Dwight was an #AirForce #pilot when #President #JohnFKennedy #championed him as a #candidate for #NASA’s early #astronautcorps.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #History #Space #BlueOrigin #Representation #Culture #RoleModels #BlackMastodon
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Blue Origin resumes human flights to suborbital space, but it wasn’t perfect - Enlarge / Ed Dwight, 90, exits Blue Origin's crew capsule Sunday after ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2025415 #humanspaceflight #commercialspace #blueorigin #newshepard #eddwight #science #launch #space #ns-25
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Blue Origin puts a test pilot who could have been NASA’s first Black astronaut on its next space crew - Air Force Capt. Ed Dwight missed out on space in the 1960s. (Courtesy of Ed Dwigh... - https://www.geekwire.com/2024/blue-origin-black-astronaut-ed-dwight/ #dreamvariationventures #spacehistory #blueorigin #newshepard #eddwight #space
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Rocket Report: Blue Origin to resume human flights; progress for Polaris Dawn - Enlarge / Ed Dwight stands in front of an F-104 jet fighter in 1963. (c... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2015028 #unitedlaunchalliance #humanspaceflight #commercialspace #rocketreport #polarisdawn #blueorigin #eddwight #science #launch #russia #spacex #space
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D'oh, it took the Post post https://post.news/article/2JFb6tRZoZde1F9yf9U3A1FrUen to make me aware of the fascinating life of #EdDwight - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Dwight - who was "the first #AfricanAmerican to have entered the Air Force training program from which #NASA selected #astronauts. He was controversially not selected to officially join NASA." Now he's a #sculptor: https://eddwight.com/