# @angelarye on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CfuS_eMPm0z
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/6360568-angelarye-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/fcc49cb64a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-07-07T19:49:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** a. rye (@angela_rye) — https://gondola.cc/angela_rye

## Caption

#ARYExBlackFacts:
Months after the U.S. declared its ambition to put a man on the moon, a new astronaut candidate entered the program. 

#EdDwight’s appointment had the potential to bridge the gap between the civil rights movement and the Space Race. Take a listen to the public radio documentary series and podcast @RadioDiaries to hear Ed Dwight’s first person account of this history.

RP @RadioDiaries
📸: Rare archival photos from the @LAPublicLibrary

Image details:

1. Astronaut Captain Edward J. Dwight, Photographs by George Birch, Valley Times Collection/Los Angeles Public Library, 1963

2. Astronaut Captain Edward J. Dwight, (Contact Sheet 2). photograph by George Brich, Valley Times Collection/Los Angeles Public Library, 1963

3. Captain Ed Dwight receives award from officials of the Los Angeles Urban League. Left to right are Brig. Gen. Irving Branch, Edwards AFB commander; D.R. Zook, Urban League; Dwight: Wesley Brazier, Urban League, and Col. 'Chuck' Yeager, astronaut training commandant at Edwards AFB. Photograph by George Brich, Valley Times Collection/Los Angeles Public Library, 1963

4. Captain Ed Dwight gets oriented on orbital paths around the Earth that a future satellite will make. Photograph by George Brich, Valley Times Collection/Los Angeles Public Library, 1963

5. Astronaut Captain Edward J. Dwight (Contact Sheet 3). Photographs by George Brich, Valley Times Collection/Los Angeles Public Library, 1963

6. New astronaut poses with wife and children. Left to right, Edward J. III, Mrs. Dwight, Captain Dwight, and Tina Sheree. Photograph by George Brich, Valley Times Collection/Los Angeles Public Library, 1963

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| a. rye | @angela_rye | https://gondola.cc/angela_rye | Talent |

## Tags

aryexblackfacts, eddwight

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