Two decades before Bluford's flight, Ed Dwight was an Air Force pilot who trained to be the first Black astronaut.
Whitney Young of the National Urban League urged Kennedy to push the Air Force to find and train the first Black astronaut.
Dwight said the famed pilot felt slighted and not being included in the decision to train a Black astronaut.
"All of a sudden we were able to hire astronauts who didn't look like the classic NASA astronaut," Bolden said.
During his flight, Glover had a group call with Dwight, Bluford, Bolden, and other Black astronauts.
Persons:
Ed Dwight, Robert Lawrence, NASA didn't, —, Guion Bluford, Bluford, Dwight, Lisa Cortés, hadn't, John F, Kennedy, Whitney Young, Cortés, Dwight wasn't, Chuck Yeager, Yeager, Frederick Gregory, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Park, Ella Fitzgerald, Martin Luther King, Craig F, Walker, Ed, Leland Melvin, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Bernard Harris , Jr, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Ron McNair, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Charles Bolden , Jr, Tamayo Méndez, Gregory, Bolden, McNair, they'll, Charles Bolden, Melvin, de Mendoza, Katherine Johnson, Ed's, kickstart, Victor Glover, George Floyd, who's, Leland D, Victor, Glover
Organizations:
NASA, Service, Air Force, Black, Atlanta Constitution, National Urban League, Bettmann, Denver's, Denver, Getty, Soviet Union, Space Shuttle Challenger, Space Shuttle Columbia, Space Station, NASA’s Office, Education, Geographic, Disney
Locations:
Atlanta, Rosa, Cuban, Cuba, United States, Soviet Union