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The man who was almost NASA's first Black astronaut in the 1960s explains why he never made it to...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEd Dwight in the cockpit of an F-104 circa the 1960s.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images "The Space Race"...
Former NASA deputy head details toxic culture, internal feuds over space policy during Obama...
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Lori Garver was tapped by President-elect Obama to become NASA’s No. 2 official in 2009, she...
NatGeo’s ‘The Space Race’ Trailer Spotlights Unsung Black Astronauts Who Changed NASA | Video
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 5 months ago"Black history is American history. We forget it at our peril," former astronaut and NASA...
The Trailblazing Black Astronauts Hidden by History
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn June 12th, the Nat Geo documentary The Space Race will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival before dropping later this year on Disney+. Directed by...
Black astronauts say 90-year-old Ed Dwight's 1st trip to space was 'justice'
ABC News via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoHours after his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three retired Black...
‘Get your boy Elon in line’: NASA tell-all recounts turmoil over private space race
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn unfiltered memoir by the agency’s former No. 2 rips NASA’s administrator and a “male-dominated” culture for wasting billions on a government-owned moon rocket.
U.S. FAA names independent safety review team to boost air safety
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBy David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday named an independent safety review team to look at ways to boost air safety after a series of ...
The 90-Year-Old Would-Be Astronaut Who Finally Gets His Chance at Space
The Wall Street Journal· 4 weeks agoU.S. NEWS Ed Dwight, the first Black man to train to be an astronaut decades ago, never actually...
‘The Space Race’ Co-Director Diego Hurtado de Mendoza On Letting Untold Black History Take Flight —...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSince NASA’s conception just over six decades ago, 600 astronauts have traveled to space, yet only...
How Russia’s war in Ukraine almost derailed Europe’s Mars rover
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 12 months agoAfter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Roscosmos was summarily cut out of the ExoMars project, taking...