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\n VAN HORN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Ed Dwight, America\u2019s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos\u2019 rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA\u2019s early astronaut corps. But he wasn\u2019t picked for the 1963 class.Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight. He called it \u201ca life changing experience.\u201d\u201cI thought I really didn\u2019t need this in my life,\u201d Dwight said shortly after exiting the capsule. \u201dBut, now, I need it in my life …. I am ecstatic.\u201dThe brief flight from West Texas made Dwight the new record-holder for oldest person in space \u2014 nearly two months older than \u201cStar Trek\u201d actor William Shatner was when he went up in 2021.<\/p>\n
It was Blue Origin\u2019s first crew launch in nearly two years. The company was grounded following a 2022 accident in which the booster came crashing down but the capsule full of experiments safely parachuted to the ground. Flights resumed last December, but with no one aboard. This was Blue Origin\u2019s seventh time flying space tourists.<\/p>\n
Dwight, a sculptor from Denver, was joined by four business entrepreneurs from the U.S. and France and a retired accountant. Their ticket prices were not disclosed; Dwight\u2019s seat was sponsored in part by the nonprofit Space for Humanity. <\/p>\n
Dwight was among the potential astronauts the Air Force recommended to NASA. But he wasn\u2019t chosen for the 1963 class, which included eventual Gemini and Apollo astronauts, including Apollo 11\u2019s Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. NASA didn\u2019t select Black astronauts until 1978, and Guion Bluford became the first African American in space in 1983. Three years earlier, the Soviets launched the first Black astronaut, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, a Cuban of African descent.<\/p>\n
After leaving the military in 1966, Dwight joined IBM and started a construction company before earning a master\u2019s degree in sculpture in the late 1970s. He\u2019s since dedicated himself to art. His sculptures focus on Black history and include memorials and monuments across the country. Several of his sculptures have flown into space. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n
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