It's About Time, It's About Space

May 19, 2024 12:19 PM

Ed Dwight, (born September 9, 1933 wikipedia) the first black astronaut, goes to space sixty-three years after Kennedy had made him part of the NASA team.
posted by dances_with_sneetches (10 comments total)

Good for him!

They wouldn't let Delos Harriman go to the moon, even though it was his idea/enterprise.

Not sure I'll be able to do that at 90, but, pretty fucking awesome for him.
posted by Windopaene at 12:32 PM on May 19 [2 favorites]

More than 60 decades? Wow, that's over (1, 2, 3...) 600 years!
posted by evilDoug at 12:33 PM on May 19 [1 favorite]

It's About Time, It's About Space

Thanks for resurrecting that earworm! ;)
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:01 PM on May 19 [6 favorites]

"It was absolutely terrific. I thought I really didn't need this in my life but now I need it in my life. I am ecstatic," Dwight said.

This made my day.
posted by chavenet at 1:14 PM on May 19 [3 favorites]

I misread this and thought it was saying he was the first Black astronaut to go to space. he is the first Black astronaut, but never got to space before.

cause I was thinking of Leland Melvin

anyway, this is really cool, I'm glad he was finally able to do this, not to mention nabbing a record.
posted by supermedusa at 1:53 PM on May 19 [2 favorites]

Dwight would have been 20 when EC Comics' Judgement Day was published. I wonder if he ever read it?
posted by Paul Slade at 2:15 PM on May 19 [3 favorites]

Thanks for resurrecting that earworm yt ! ;)
I didn't know anyone else was old enough to catch that.
Ooh! Ooh!
posted by MtDewd at 2:23 PM on May 19 [2 favorites]

Thanks for resurrecting that earworm yt ! ;)

Funny, I thought the earworm was from X, "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts"
posted by dfm500 at 2:49 PM on May 19 [4 favorites]

It's About Time, It's About Space

Thanks for resurrecting that earworm yt ! ;)

All these years I've been thinking that the next line was "it's about two men in the human race", but noooo, I was wrong.
posted by Zedcaster at 6:57 PM on May 19 [1 favorite]

Old guy cheated by racism during the Space Race gets charity ride on billionaire's vanity private space-tourism joyride. This is not at all like the story of Delos D. Harriman, sorry.
posted by Aardvark Cheeselog at 10:10 AM on May 20