{"id":647895,"date":"2020-03-01T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647895"},"modified":"2020-03-01T22:09:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:09:53","slug":"black-in-space-explores-nasas-small-steps-and-giant-leaps-toward-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647895","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Black In Space&#039; Explores NASA&#039;s Small Steps And Giant Leaps Toward Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gettyimages-1154159450_wide-7cec6d20466d06a7c664658b820f1f57d85cf87b.jpg\" alt=\"A new documentary centers on Edward Dwight, the first African American selected as a potential astronaut in 1963 for Aerospace Research Pilot School.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new documentary looks at America&#8217;s struggle to send its first black astronaut to space. &#8220;It would&#8217;ve been fantastic if we saw Ed Dwight walking on the moon,&#8221; says black astronaut Robert Satcher.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Bettmann Archive\/Getty)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/npr-rss-pixel.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/03\/01\/810798435\/black-in-space-explores-nasa-s-small-steps-and-giant-leaps-toward-equality?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Black In Space&#8217; Explores NASA&#8217;s Small Steps And Giant Leaps Toward Equality<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary looks at America&#8217;s struggle to send its first black astronaut to space. &#8220;It would&#8217;ve been fantastic if we saw Ed Dwight walking on the moon,&#8221; says black&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}