Ed Dwight told himself he didn’t care that he trained to go to space but didn’t make it. That changed when peers persuaded him to take a Blue Origin flight at age 90.

First Black astronaut candidate Ed Dwight Jr.'s second mission 06:10. In 1961, Ed Dwight hoped to become the first Black astronaut in space. But he never made it. Now, at 90 years old, Dwight will ...

Blue Origin noted that NS-31 was the first women-only space mission since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963. Sanchez chose the crew.

Why is Space black? Space is a different medium as compared to the Earth and doesn’t have an atmosphere to scatter light. In the vast emptiness of space, sunlight travels in a straight line ...

Why is Space black? Space is a different medium as compared to the Earth and doesn’t have an atmosphere to scatter light. In the vast emptiness of space, sunlight travels in a straight line ...

The mission, known as NS-25, sent six people on a brief trip to suborbital space Sunday (May 19) on Blue Origin's 1st crewed flight since 2022.

Watching Mae Jamison become the first Black woman to go to space aboard the shuttle Endeavour in September 1992 was inspiring. That same month, natural disasters killed and injured tens of people ...

On April 14th, Gayle King was part of an all-female Blue Origin flight to space but some black folks are not convinced. As we know, CBS news anchor Gayle King went on an all-female Blue Origin ...

Blue Origin’s First All-Women Crew Returns To Earth From Historic Space Launch. The space shuttle included news host Gayle King, singer Katy Perry, journalist Lauren Sánchez, producer Kerianne ...

Instead, she started collecting stories about “the mystery of blue and its alchemy in the lives of Black folks.” By compiling hundreds of instances where blue items or concepts have ...

Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, for example, have been known to spar publicly over the matter — mostly because of one, specific means of defining space: the Kármán line. What makes an astronaut ...