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Ed Dwight flies to space with Blue Origin 60 years after being 'first Black astronaut' [i]Ed Dwight has finally made it to space, more than 60 years after he made headlines as the United States' first Black astronaut. The now 90-year-old former Air Force Captain lifted off on Sunday (May 19) on Blue Origin's 25th New Shepard sub-orbital mission. Launching with five other passengers at 9:36 a.m. CDT (1436 GMT) from the company's West Texas facility, Dwight reached 66 miles (106 km) high, qualifying him as an astronaut based on altitude standards originally set by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world's governing body for human spaceflight records, and recognized by the Association of Space Explorers. The flight, which ended with the New Shepard capsule "RSS First Step" touching down under parachutes not far from where it had leapt off Earth about 10 minutes earlier, completed a journey that began in 1961.[/i]
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