'I needed to finish it,' Dwight said.
Ed Dwight celebrates as he exits the Mission NS-25 crew capsule, upon landing near the Blue Origin base near Van Horn, Texas, May 19, 2024.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
Despite being appointed by Kennedy to the Aerospace Research Pilot School and recommended by the Air Force, Dwight was not chosen for the NASA astronaut corps in the aftermath of Kennedy’s assassination. Following his historic flight to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight, second from left, speaks with retired NASA astronauts Leland Melvin, Charles Bolden Jr. and Bernard Harris on May 19, 2024.But he said as more and more supporters and fans encouraged him to seize the opportunity, he began "analyzing the necessity of bringing it up to the front of my brain."Dwight was one of six people who blasted off to space from the remote Texas desert on Sunday aboard the New Shepard.
Mission NS-25, with the New Shepard 4 rocket and crew capsule, taking off from the Blue Origin base near Van Horn, Texas, May 19, 2024.Dwight said the experience was life-altering and suggested that every elected leader to Congress be required to view Earth from"If they were to fly around this globe two or three times they would see the necessity of this planet unified and see what they're losing by destroying it," Dwight said.
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