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VAN HORN, Texas – Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, will finally fly into space at 90 years old on Blue Origin’s next launch to the edge of space. Dwight is among the six-person crew launching . . .
Ed Dwight, the first Black astronaut candidate, is ready to soar into space. On Thursday (April 4),
Heading into this year’s Watches and Wonders show in Geneva, rumors swirled that Rolex was going to release a GMT-Master II with a red-and-black “Coke bezel.” That didn’t happen. Instead, the Crown gave us a stainless steel GMT with a black-and-gray bezel. But that doesn’t mean we were left without . . .
Popverse’s top stories of the day Cloning is one of the trickiest philosophical questions raised in science fiction, which is why we expect the genre to continue giving us new and interesting takes on this controversial topic. Orphan Black: Echoes, the latest follow-up to the 2013 show that launched a multi-media franchise, is poised […]
Afro Newspaper/Gado / Contributor / Getty Images In San Antonio, TX at the Veterans Cemetery at Fort Sam Houston, there is a row of headstones for soldiers missing the name, rank, date of birth, and the wars in which they fought. Who do these graves belong to? “Members of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Ed Dwight grew up in segregated 1930s Kansas on a farm on the edge of town. An airfield was within walking distance, and, as a boy, he’d often go to marvel at the planes and gawk at the pilots. Most were flying back from hunting trips and their cabins were messy […]
The US public got one of its first glimpses of the Biden administration’s strategy on Black Sea security in the form of Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien’s October testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The testimony follows after US senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) […]
By George E. Hocker, Jr. When the CIA told me it was creating an exhibit about me for its venerated museum at headquarters in Langley—its first exhibit ever about a Black American spy—I was stunned. Having grown up in Washington, DC, so poor that my family could not even afford long pants for me in […]
Updated Jan. 8, 2024 9:21 am ET A powerful rocket developed by a Boeing-and-Lockheed Martin-owned company blasted off for the first time early Monday, the vehicle’s inaugural flight after years of delays. Called Vulcan Centaur, the 202-foot-tall rocket lifted off under a trail of flames at 2:18 a.m. ET from a Florida launchpad, powering an […]
With its data still intact, the United States Air Force (USAF) has retrieved the flight data recorder from a CV-22B Osprey that crashed off the coast of Japan in late November. This could offer crucial hints to investigators regarding the cause of the tragic accident. The V-22 Osprey crashed into the water off the coast […]