Ed Dwight has become the oldest person to rocket into space after hitching a ride on a Jeff Bezos spacecraft.
Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos' rocket company on Sunday.
The brief flight from West Texas made Dwight the new record-holder for oldest person in space — nearly two months older than "Star Trek" actor William Shatner was when he went up in 2021.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.
Their ticket prices were not disclosed; Dwight's seat was sponsored in part by the non-profit Space for Humanity.But he wasn't chosen for the 1963 class, which included eventual Gemini and Apollo astronauts, including Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Three years earlier, the Soviets launched the first Black astronaut, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, a Cuban of African descent.
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