The Space Race: A Documentary Examining the Black History Side of the Race to Space

<p>The most compelling aspect of this documentary by Lisa Cort&eacute;s and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza is the story of Ed Dwight and his experience with training to be an astronaut. In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy declared to his team that he wanted to integrate the space program by including a Black astronaut. When his advisors balked and insisted that it would take too long to find one Kennedy told them to make it happen and quickly. Captain Ed Dwight was a 27-year-old Air Force pilot who was recruited to participate.</p> <p>Dwight recounts his experience noting that he had to depict perfection, even going to the means of portraying a happy family even though, he and his ex-wife were separated. Dwight details the racism he experienced by pilot Chuck Yeager who insisted that Dwight would never fly and his heartbreak over the assassination of Kennedy and the death of his dream to get to space.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/reviewsday-tuesday/the-space-race-a-documentary-examining-the-black-history-side-of-the-race-to-space-84f3d84f7979"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>