The solution was to train a Black astronaut. The White House began searching for a Black pilot with all of the qualifications. It landed on Ed Dwight. “I had to be talked into it,” he said.

Bundled in his extravehicular mobility suit, Harris stepped beyond the spacecraft, becoming the first Black astronaut to perform a spacewalk. The sight of Earth beneath him was breathtaking ...

Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos' rocket company on Sunday.

The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men ... And there was this big black void, black hole. And that was the moon! That was the moon shielding the stars and yet not illuminated.