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Ed Dwight, a 90-year-old artist and former Air Force test pilot who was denied a chance to become the first African American astronaut six decades ago, finally rocketed into space on Sunday, fulfilling a cherished dream in a brief up-and-down flight out of the lower atmosphere.
Jeff Bezos' space tourism company Blue Origin completed its seventh human spaceflight early this morning.
The Blue Origin successfully completed its seventh human spaceflight and the 25th flight for the New Shepard program on Sunday. Andhra-born Gopi Thotakura was a part of the crew among five other crew members.
Ed Dwight, who missed out on his chance to join the space program in 1963 became the oldest person ever to reach space after flying into the sky with Jeff Bezos' aerospace company Blue Origin
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The former Air Force pilot trained to become an astronaut in the 1960s but was never selected by NASA. On a Blue Origin flight Sunday, he became the oldest person to go to space