The solution was to train a Black astronaut. The White House began searching for a Black pilot with all of the qualifications. It landed on Ed Dwight. “I had to be talked into it,” he said.

For decades following the Apollo moon missions, which featured only white, male astronauts, NASA sought to increase the presence of qualified women and minorities within its ranks, celebrating each ...

since it was a black eye for the Biden administration — sparked outrage among former astronauts. "What a lie," European Space Agency astronaut and former ISS commander Andreas Mogensen tweeted.

Bundled in his extravehicular mobility suit, Harris stepped beyond the spacecraft, becoming the first Black astronaut to perform a spacewalk. The sight of Earth beneath him was breathtaking ...

He remained with the agency from 1990 to 2010. During his tenure, he became an astronaut and served as a mission specialist on STS-55 in 1993 and the groundbreaking STS-63 flight in 1995 – which ...

all-white, all-male astronaut corps. “Kennedy was trying to get the nation ready for a Black astronaut,” said Dwight, whose battle against the Goliath of prejudice faded in the aftermath of ...