A new documentary centers on Edward Dwight, the first African American selected as a potential astronaut in 1963 for Aerospace Research Pilot School. Bettmann Archive/Getty hide caption
For many Americans, the first moon landing remains the most memorable moment in the history of manned space travel.
It was a high-water mark in the space race, but as the United States and Soviet Union were rushing to prove their dominance, a lesser known chapter in that battle was taking place: America's effort to send a black man into space.
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The 2018 movie A.I. Rising explores how machines could fulfil desires and support humans during space travel. Lo and behold, it might contain the solution to problems related to space exploration. Astronauts, despite their rigorous training, remain humans with needs. For space exploration and colonization to succeed, we need to overcome taboos, consider human needs and desires and provide concrete, realistic solutions based on science rather than conventional morality.
Can humans thrive for prolonged periods of time in small groups and in closed, isolated environments? Can humans contend with limited possibilities of relationships, intimacy and sexuality?
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MARTIN: Neil Armstrong landing on the moon in 1969 as the U.S. and Russia rushed to prove their superiority in space during the Cold War. Now a new documentary by the Smithsonian Channel shows another important but less known chapter in that competition - the race to put a black man in space.
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ED DWIGHT: Had I succeeded, they wouldn't have no more excuse about how ignorant black people were, how they couldn't learn, how they couldn't accomplish. I was in the right place at the wrong time, you know.
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Of course, such adventures don't come cheap. The experience starts at US$5400, which includes 15 parabolic manoeuvres, meals before and after the flight, and professional photos and video of you floating around the cabin, and runs up to US$165,000 for a private flights accommodating up to 34 people.
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Hong Kong sits right up against China's Guangdong Province, which has had more than 1,300 cases, the second largest number on the mainland after Hubei.
But Hong Kong has seen fewer than 100 cases since the outbreak began, and so far its strategies to contain the coronavirus have prevented large-scale outbreaks that have happened in countries like Iran, Italy and South Korea.
Schools are closed. Many businesses are shuttered. All train, bus and ferry service to mainland China is suspended, and the border with China is essentially shut down.
Virgin Galactic inches closer to taking passengers into space
You could become a space explorer in the near future — or possibly this year if your name is Richard Branson.
Virgin Galactic , the Branson-backed private space venture, says it is getting ever-closer to the first commercial passenger space flights.
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The company has planned for space flights since as early as 2010, but the first flight has been delayed repeatedly over the last decade . Virgin Galactic is taking refundable $1,000 deposits from the public, though, if you want to get on the list for a future trip into orbit.
Rocket that could half space travel times tested in the UK - Wales Online
A super-fast 100,000mph interstellar space rocket has been tested by a private British nuclear fusion company.
Pulsar Fusion , a privately owned and operated nuclear fusion firm based in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, has built and tested a miniature prototype of a plasma-powered rocket thruster.
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Current rockets work well at propelling astronauts into space, but have a maximum exhaust speed of around 40,000mph.
So once outside of Earth's atmosphere, they are too slow for humans to travel meaningful distances in acceptable mission timeframes.
RIP Freeman Dyson: The super-boffin who applied his mathematical brain to nuclear magic, quantum
Dyson was born on December 15, 1923 in Berkshire, England, and read mathematics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, aged 17. During the Second World War, he was pulled from academia to work as a scientist helping Blighty's Royal Air Force target German aircraft. After the war, he returned to Cambridge to complete his degree.
In 1947, he moved to the United States to obtain a PhD at Cornell University, studying alongside Hans Bethe, one of the pioneering nuclear physicists who played a crucial role in America's top-secret atom-bomb-building lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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