Blue Origin
Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally journeyed to space at the age of 90, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin. Dwight, an Air Force pilot championed by President John F. Kennedy as a NASA astronaut candidate, wasn’t selected for the 1963 class. On Sunday, Dwight experienced a few minutes of weightlessness […]
Ed Dwight, the United States’ first Black astronaut candidate, became the oldest person to go to space on Sunday as Blue Origin launched its New Shepard NS-25 spacecraft and completed its first human flight since 2022. The 90-year-old Dwight took his first trip to space more than 60 decades after President John F. Kennedy appointed […]
NASA plans to retire the International Space Station (ISS) by crashing it into the ocean at the end of 2030, marking the end of its over three-decade tenure orbiting Earth. The agency is collaborating with private companies—Axiom Space, Voyager Space, and Blue Origin—to develop a new space station that will be privately owned, built, and […]
If you didn’t know us regular people are now traveling to space. Jeff Bezos Blue Origin rocket has two trips to space in the history books. The last mission which took place at the beginning of October included actor William Shatner. Shatner is the oldest person to travel to space at 90 years of age. […]
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