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4 hours ago · In her latest book, Only The Astronauts, Australian author Ceridwen Dovey gives voice to these inanimate objects, offering their perspectives as they leave Earth behind. Dovey, an Australian Museum Eureka Award winner for her science writing and a Research Fellow at Macquarie University, imagines the thoughts of objects like Elon Musk’s Starman, the International Space Station, and the ...
1 day ago · Hours after his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three retired Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for forging a path for them to go into orbit and called his voyage aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-25 spacecraft "justice." More than six decades after President John F. Kennedy tapped him to be the nation's first Black astronaut candidate to the elite Aerospace ...
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4 hours ago · Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying wi...
7 hours ago · VAN HORN, Texas — Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force ...
4 hours ago · Astronaut John Glenn remains the oldest to orbit the planet, a feat he achieved in 1998 at the age 77 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. To space, finally.
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7 hours ago · Former NASA astronaut Ed Dwight poses for a portrait to promote the National Geographic documentary film "The Space Race" during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour, Thursday, Feb ...
1 day ago · The race between Boeing and SpaceX was born in the years after the space shuttle made its final flight. Without the shuttle, which was retired in 2011, the United States had no way to launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, instead relying on Russian Soyuz capsules to take ...
