{"id":193370,"date":"2024-07-23T16:33:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/ed-dwight-a-space-pioneer-who-finally-became-an-astronaut"},"modified":"2024-07-23T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:33:19","slug":"ed-dwight-a-space-pioneer-who-finally-became-an-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/ed-dwight-a-space-pioneer-who-finally-became-an-astronaut","title":{"rendered":"Ed Dwight: A space pioneer who finally became an astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ed-dwight-a-space-pioneer-who-finally-became-an-astronaut.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b id=\"ed-dwight-could-have-been-the-only-black-astronaut-in-the-1960s-&ndash;-but-politics-got-in-the-way.-in-2024,-at-the-age-of-90,-he-finally-got-his-chance-to-go-into-orbit.\" class=\"\">Ed Dwight could have been the only black astronaut in the 1960s \u2013 but politics got in the way. In 2024, at the age of 90, he finally got his chance to go into orbit.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Humanity has entered a new age of space tourism. For a minimum of $450,000 (\u00a3360,000), people with deep pockets can claim the title \u201castronaut\u201d after a short sub-orbital flight to the edge of space and back and up to 10 minutes experiencing weightlessness above the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>On these near-spaceflights, currently offered by Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, there is usually one member of the crew whose name and story captures the headlines \u2013 and often a free ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Dwight could have been the only black astronaut in the 1960s \u2013 but politics got in the way. In 2024, at the age of 90, he finally got his chance to go into orbit. Humanity has entered a new age of space tourism. For a minimum of $450,000 (\u00a3360,000), people with deep pockets can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}