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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 07:30:19 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Ed Dwight was denied the opportunity to be the first Black astronaut. Now 90, Dwight is getting his due in a new National Geographic documentary “The Space Race.” Read more from the Associated Press. https://flip.it/kjAxvr
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1. Ed Dwight was to be the first Black astronaut. At 90, he's finally getting his due
  
  from https://apnews.com/author/jake-coyle
  
  It wasn’t until 1983 that the first African American, Guion Bluford, reached space. But two decades earlier, Ed Dwight found himself at a fulcrum of 20th Century American history, where the space race and the struggle for social justice converged.

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