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
Oggi, a #LineaRadioSavona, con GianFunk abbiamo scoperto l'incredibile storia di #Ed #Dwight, il primo candidato astronauta afroamericano negli anni '60, e di come sia potuto andare nello spazio solo ora, con la NS-25 di #blueorigin!
Grazie a tutti gli ascoltatori, buon sabato a tutti! 🙏👋🚀
Foto: Blue Origin
#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
Ed Dwight was selected by President John F. Kennedy as the nation’s first Black astronaut candidate in 1961 but was never granted the opportunity to fly to space. For the past five decades, he’s dedicated his life’s work to using sculpture as a medium to tell the story of Black
What an incredible idea from the #EdDwight, the man many believed could have, and should have, been the first Black person in #space:
"Anybody who thinks about running for national office should take at least three orbits around Earth as a prerequisite. They should look down at how valuable it is and how sacred it is and how fragile "
The #OverviewEffect would serve many leaders well, I suspect.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/science/edward-dwight-astronauts.html
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