Ed Dwight was NASA's first Black astronaut candidate in the 1960s. A new documentary tells his forgotten story

Ed Dwight was NASA's first Black astronaut candidate in the 1960s. A new documentary tells his forgotten story

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None "The Space Race" is a new documentary about some of the first Black astronauts. • None NASA trained Ed Dwight and Robert Lawrence to become astronauts in the 1960s. • None But NASA didn't send an African-American astronaut to space until 1983. On August 30, 1983, NASA sent Guion Bluford, the…

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