Blue Origin rocket carries first Black astronaut candidate into space 04:22. Ed Dwight, a 90-year-old artist and former Air Force test pilot who was denied a chance to become the first African ...

America’s first Black astronaut candidate has finally made it to outer space 60-plus years later—and he's the oldest person to do so.

In 1961, Ed Dwight was selected by President John F. Kennedy to enter an Air Force training program known as the path to NASA's Astronaut Corps. But he ultimately never made it to space.

Black pilots have always been capable of piloting a moon mission. Victor Glover Jr.'s selection is really progress for NASA. First Black astronaut to the moon — whose progress is it?

African American astronaut Guion ‘Guy’ Bluford smiles while serving as Mission Specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger’s third misson STS-8, September 1983.