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Beijing is celebrating its successful world-first mission to collect samples from the far side of the moon, saying U.S. efforts to deter China can’t keep it from making “giant steps” in space. China this week became the first . . .
To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, ‘Almost hit my son’ – Space junk crashes through Florida homeArticle information Author, Rachel Looker Role, BBC News, Washington 1 hour ago A Florida family whose home was hit by space debris earlier this year is seeking compensation from US space […]
By Nikia Chaney | Contributing Columnist San Bernardino poet and teacher Nikia Chaney is the literary laureate of Inlandia Institute. (File photo by Kurt Miller, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Toni Morrison wrote “Beloved” during quiet moments when her children were asleep. Black women writers often find time for their art only in such quiet moments. Society rarely […]
Ed Dwight poses for a portrait to promote the National Geographic documentary film “The Space Race” during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour, Thursday, in February. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Ed Dwight poses for a portrait to promote the National Geographic documentary film “The Space Race” during the Winter Television […]
More than 60 years after Edward Dwight was chosen to be the first Black astronaut, only to see his place in the history of space exploration taken and deferred by the specter of racism and politics, he went to space on Sunday morning. After landing, at the end of a flight that lasted 9 minutes […]
HONOLULU — Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Wednesday voted to oppose a U.S. military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala volcano, the latest observatory project to meet objection in the islands. The U.S. Space Force and Air Force want to build a new facility on the top […]
Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui have voted to oppose a U.S. military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala volcano By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press June 5, 2024, 11:18 PM ET • 3 min read HONOLULU — Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Wednesday voted to […]
Ed Dwight told himself the same story for decades: It didn’t matter that he never made it into space. Dwight was the first Black man selected for an American astronaut-training program in 1962. He had spent years at Edwards Air Force Base in California doing zero-gravity training, running test planes . . .
VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for . . […]
Ed Dwight celebrates after landing back on Earth following Sunday morning’s ten-minute flight to space. Blue Origin via X More than 60 years after he became the United States’ first Black astronaut candidate, Ed Dwight finally flew to space. On Sunday, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket carried six people to and from the Kármán line—the […]