{"id":44351,"date":"2025-08-18T20:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/denver-astronaut-considered-for-the-highest-civilian-honor-bestowed-by-congress\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:21:12","slug":"denver-astronaut-considered-for-the-highest-civilian-honor-bestowed-by-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/denver-astronaut-considered-for-the-highest-civilian-honor-bestowed-by-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver astronaut considered for the highest civilian honor bestowed by Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A bill by Colorado&#8217;s Rep. Joe Neguse and Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper would award <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/ed-dwight-oldest-man-space-beating-cancer-greatest-triumph\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ed Dwight<\/a><\/span> the Congressional Gold Medal. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/16\/cc5b89c9-3a07-4d02-b6fe-7d59371f67d6\/thumbnail\/620x405\/5a6d13603b3b916b3d04991df36670c7\/dwight.jpg#\" alt=\"dwight.jpg \" height=\"405\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/16\/cc5b89c9-3a07-4d02-b6fe-7d59371f67d6\/thumbnail\/620x405\/5a6d13603b3b916b3d04991df36670c7\/dwight.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/16\/cc5b89c9-3a07-4d02-b6fe-7d59371f67d6\/thumbnail\/1240x810\/f26b8dd3fbde344f9ae9d18a460c3df3\/dwight.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Ed Dwight<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dwight is the first Black astronaut candidate and oldest man to go into space. The 91-year-old has also owned <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/ed-dwight-art-nasa-colorado-sculptor-honored-mlk-jr-business-awards-denver\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">several successful businesses<\/a><\/span> during his extraordinary life and is a nationally renowned sculptor.<\/p>\n<p>He says, in many ways, his destiny was written by his mom. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;She had this thing beat into my brain that anybody who had the advantage either educationally or financially owed it to the rest of the community,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p> That principle has guided him throughout his life. He says when President John F. Kennedy asked him to join the astronaut training program in 1961, he didn&#8217;t want it. His mom said it wasn&#8217;t about what he wanted. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;She said &#8216;You better get out and do this. We need this as an inspiration for the Black community,'&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/16\/e7e532e9-f169-4510-a7a4-f82747980934\/thumbnail\/620x349\/0cdac3a6a58acda550ba3f82395a7e9a\/ed-dwight.jpg#\" alt=\"ed-dwight.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/16\/e7e532e9-f169-4510-a7a4-f82747980934\/thumbnail\/620x349\/0cdac3a6a58acda550ba3f82395a7e9a\/ed-dwight.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/16\/e7e532e9-f169-4510-a7a4-f82747980934\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/8c94f8d61bd97c58eb9787a1d0bc7263\/ed-dwight.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Dwight says progress turned to prejudice and racism after Kennedy was assassinated, causing him to resign. Forced to reinvent himself, he took a job at IBM in Colorado, where he says he was tapped to be the company&#8217;s first Black vice president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said been through that first Black thing once and it didn&#8217;t work out so well,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p> He became his own boss instead, running an aviation consulting business, restaurants, and a real estate and construction company. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We had Learjets flying all over the country,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p> In his free time, he started sculpting. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;At the end of the day, I&#8217;d get in my Mercedes and drive to (construction) sites and pick up all the metal that was laying aroud and I started making art,&#8221; Dwight said. <\/p>\n<p> His artwork caught the eye of Colorado&#8217;s first Black lieutenant governor, George Brown, who asked Dwight to do a sculpture for the state capitol. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/16\/5257d408-cdd2-4a5b-bee1-56d462b16485\/thumbnail\/620x349\/ba552130e3005cf4345b2feb7f21b3c7\/dwight.jpg#\" alt=\"dwight.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/16\/5257d408-cdd2-4a5b-bee1-56d462b16485\/thumbnail\/620x349\/ba552130e3005cf4345b2feb7f21b3c7\/dwight.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/16\/5257d408-cdd2-4a5b-bee1-56d462b16485\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/0220a6965b5c274bafe56eec36025c35\/dwight.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">CBS Colorado&#8217;s Shaun Boyd interviews Ed Dwight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;He told me &#8216;You owe the world something,'&#8221; said Dwight. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to spread the word. We&#8217;ve got to have art in almost every city to remind both the Black and the White communities that Black folks did something in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Dwight was called to put the greater good first. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;So, I got rid of all my companies and ended up where I am today,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p> He is an acclaimed artist who has created nearly 20,000 gallery pieces and more than 130 memorials dedicated to Black history. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I&#8217;m a pretty happy guy,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p> But his life wasn&#8217;t quite complete until last year, when he was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/america-first-black-astronaut-candidate-space\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">offered a seat on Blue Origin<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I said that I didn&#8217;t care whether I went up or not. I lied,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p> It was a moment he had trained for but, he wasn&#8217;t prepared for what he saw. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Look at that beautiful little place down there, how organized it is, how well ordered it is,&#8221; he said, referring to the Earth from space. <\/p>\n<p> Ed Dwight &#8212; a man acutely aware of how ugly the world can be &#8212; saw beauty. He isn&#8217;t the first Black astronaut but, he is the oldest to go into space. <\/p>\n<p> Dwight is being considered for a Congressional Gold Medal for his achievements in aviation and art. <\/p>\n<p> He isn&#8217;t holding his breath. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;What we&#8217;re faced with is forcing people to remember things,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p> Things that were meant to break Ed Dwight. But he rose above it all, and lifted others with him. <\/p>\n<p> He&#8217;s been called a space pioneer living legend, and trailblazer but, he has a different idea for his legacy. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I&#8217;m just a guy who wants to make this a better world, better for everybody &#8212; Black folks, White folks, everybody.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> The Fellowship Community of Vikki Buckley is holding a celebration of Ed Dwight Saturday, Aug. 16, from 2-4 p.m. at the Assistant League of Denver Event Center. 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