More than 60 years after he was selected but ultimately passed over to become this

country's first black astronaut, Ed Dwight finally made it to space. On Sunday

he flew aboard Blue Origins New Shepard 25 rocket as it skimmed space on a roughly 10 minute

flight.

Ed Dwight was an Air Force pilot when then President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA's early astronaut

core, but his plans for space travel were sidelined, and he was never granted the opportunity

due to racism within the program.

Dwight left the Air Force and went on to make a name for himself as a celebrated artist and

sculptor.

With Sunday's flight, he makes history as the oldest person to ever go to space at age 90. I spoke

with Ed Dwight earlier and I asked him about his history-making flight.

I was more interested in the power and the noise and the lifting going straight

up in the air instead of flying an airplane from you know for a runway or something and and it was it was

quite fast and we got up to the speed you know a fairly quickly.

The getting into space part was more interesting to me than anything else.

The weightlessness I lived in a world of weightlessness, so that didn't bother me.

I never got out of my seat.

You know, we were laying down in the capsule.

So I never got out of my seat.

There was a big 10 foot tall window that was next to me

and I was more fascinated with what was going on outside and what was going on inside.

When we did get a 0G, the other members of the crew, they had designed a dance.

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