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We have a very special guest here we're going to
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introduce to this audience, and I'm really privilege and honoured
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to be able to give this gentleman and read a
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little bit of his bio and share with him in
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the audience his time as an astronaut. Who we're talking about.
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We're talking about Ed Dwight. Who's Ed Dwight. He enlisted.
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Captain Ed Dwight enlisted in the US Air Force in
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nineteen fifty three and was commissioned a lieutenant in nineteen
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fifty five. In nineteen sixty one, at the direction of
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President John F. Kennedy, he became the first African American
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to enter the Air Force training program, from which NASA
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selected astronauts. Although we completed training at the Aerospace Research
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Pilot School in nineteen sixty three and advanced to the
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second round of the program, end he was not selected
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for the Astronaut Corps. Dwight finally traveled into space on
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Blue Origins NS twenty five mission in twenty twenty four,
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becoming the oldest person to ever participate in the spaceflight,
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a record previously held by William Shatner, and in twenty
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twenty rightfully he became an honorary member of the US
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Space Worts during a ceremony at the Pentagon with that
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Captain Eddwight. It's a priviletly noted to have you on
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this radio show, which we call The Doctor's Guy Experience.
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Hope you're with us, and thank you, my friend, for
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your passion, for the service that you gave the American
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people and your space flight. How are you.
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Well. I'm faring. Uh, I'm having a few health issues
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right now. But but thank you for all the kind words. Uh.
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And and even reaching back to even you know, consider
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talking to uh, you know, talking to me, and and
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and all of the all the things that it seems
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so long ago that you know that all that all
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this stuff took place. But uh, obviously I keep up
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with the States program, and I keep up with all
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the all the all the current astronauts, and then they
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come to the flat of Denver to visit me in
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my studio and uh and so I keep my hand
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in uh. Uh and uh a Victor Glover, Uh, as
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you know, just went to the Moon and he's one
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of my he's one of my protegees, by the way.
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Uh and and uh doing this mission we managed to
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talk over the phone during the last mission that he
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went up and did all that magic stuff that they
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do up there now. So I'm I'm glad to be
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on your program, and like I said, I am having
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a few healthy issues right now.
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Do you want to honor your service and not to
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keep you too long here? I know this is late
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for you, but also I want to mention this, and
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I think the audience needs to know you're an accomplished sculptor.
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This is interesting. Your passion has always been art, obviously
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the love of space in the United States Air Force,
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your services very much honored. He'sk you have completed that
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as a number of public monuments, including the Texas African
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American History Memorial on the grounds of the Texas State
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Capitol and among others, the African American History Monument on
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the grounds of the South Carolina State House. That's an
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interesting thing. Your passion has always been obviously looking skyward.
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But tell us about the passion for being an artist
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and a sculptor. That's an incredible skill, something that I'm
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not even familiar with. Share with us a little bit
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about that. It's amazing.
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Well, I this is you know, a very verse change.
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I had two options to make a life's work. I
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grew up on a farm in Kansas City, and I
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came out of the chute making art from the time
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I was sort of school when I was two years old,
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and I started doing art. At that time, I was
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doing full bodies and when I was two and three
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and four years old, where the other kids was doing
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stick figures. And I was an artist all the way
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through school. As a matter of fact, when I graduated
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from high school, I got an art scholarship to the
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Kansity Art Institute. But the other alternative option I had
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was I grew up on a farm that was right
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next to the Sabine Airport Fairfax Airport in Kansas City,
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and from the from the time I was two and three,
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Mom used to take us to the me and my
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oldest sisters at the airport to tell stories about how
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big the world was, and this airport was a great
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vehicle because these planes took off and went some magic place,
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and they come back and they land and it'd been
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to some magic place. And I so I started going
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to the airport every day and I got my first
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flight and the Steerman when I was eight years old,
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I got a job cleaning out airplanes for pilots that
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are from Kansas and Missouri that went to Colorado for
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hunting trips. There was no war at the time, so
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as a results, I was around airplanes all of my
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early life, and I started studying about flying as and
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I didn't have any hopes of being a flying root
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for real, because all these people were around row white guys,
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you know, and I was this little little little brown
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kid going to the airport every day, and they kind
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of adopted me. But I got this fascinated with with
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fascination with flying. And I had a paper and I
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was throwing papers all the way through college, and I was,
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you know, I had this art scholarship, so I had
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to make a decision as to whether I was going
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to be an artist or or a pilot gun. But
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I was throwing my papers. I had a black paper
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rod and a white paper rout and I was, like
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I said, I was in college storm newspapers, and on
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the front page of the black paper was a black
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pilot was a tuskegeearm and they got shot down in Korea,
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and all of a sudden, I got this, oh my god,
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they're letting black folks fly airplanes and what. And I
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immediately apply for pilot training and they sent me to Denver.
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Thirty three able from this college to Denver, and I
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was the only I was the thirty three. I was
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the only one that passed a pilot training. Two other
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guys pass from a navigator And so the Air Force
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just sucked me right up and said, you know we
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want you now.
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You're right. In those days, African Americans were not probably
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what in the pilot seat. Much of your story is amazing.
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Ed Dwight, as we've mentioned before, a gentleman who was
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selected by President John F. Kennedy to be the first
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African American astronaut in space. The story continues that he
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finally got his wish and rightfully so, for his service
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to America by flying in Blue Origins NS twenty five
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mission in twenty twenty five. As thou build, not to
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put you in a different light here, but this is interesting.
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The oldest person to ever participate in a spaceflight previously
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held by William Shadner
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We have a very special guest here we're going to
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introduce to this audience, and I'm really privilege and honoured
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to be able to give this gentleman and read a
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little bit of his bio and share with him in
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the audience his time as an astronaut. Who we're talking about.
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We're talking about Ed Dwight. Who's Ed Dwight. He enlisted.
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Captain Ed Dwight enlisted in the US Air Force in
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nineteen fifty three and was commissioned a lieutenant in nineteen
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fifty five. In nineteen sixty one, at the direction of
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President John F. Kennedy, he became the first African American
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to enter the Air Force training program, from which NASA
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00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:35.799
selected astronauts. Although we completed training at the Aerospace Research
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Pilot School in nineteen sixty three and advanced to the
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second round of the program, end he was not selected
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for the Astronaut Corps. Dwight finally traveled into space on
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Blue Origins NS twenty five mission in twenty twenty four,
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becoming the oldest person to ever participate in the spaceflight,
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a record previously held by William Shatner, and in twenty
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twenty rightfully he became an honorary member of the US
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Space Worts during a ceremony at the Pentagon with that
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Captain Eddwight. It's a priviletly noted to have you on
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this radio show, which we call The Doctor's Guy Experience.
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Hope you're with us, and thank you, my friend, for
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your passion, for the service that you gave the American
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people and your space flight. How are you.
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Well. I'm faring. Uh, I'm having a few health issues
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right now. But but thank you for all the kind words. Uh.
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And and even reaching back to even you know, consider
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talking to uh, you know, talking to me, and and
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and all of the all the things that it seems
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so long ago that you know that all that all
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this stuff took place. But uh, obviously I keep up
33
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with the States program, and I keep up with all
34
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the all the all the current astronauts, and then they
35
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come to the flat of Denver to visit me in
36
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my studio and uh and so I keep my hand
37
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in uh. Uh and uh a Victor Glover, Uh, as
38
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you know, just went to the Moon and he's one
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of my he's one of my protegees, by the way.
40
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Uh and and uh doing this mission we managed to
41
00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:31.159
talk over the phone during the last mission that he
42
00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:35.280
went up and did all that magic stuff that they
43
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do up there now. So I'm I'm glad to be
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on your program, and like I said, I am having
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a few healthy issues right now.
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Do you want to honor your service and not to
47
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keep you too long here? I know this is late
48
00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:56.120
for you, but also I want to mention this, and
49
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I think the audience needs to know you're an accomplished sculptor.
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This is interesting. Your passion has always been art, obviously
51
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the love of space in the United States Air Force,
52
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your services very much honored. He'sk you have completed that
53
00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:11.439
as a number of public monuments, including the Texas African
54
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American History Memorial on the grounds of the Texas State
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Capitol and among others, the African American History Monument on
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the grounds of the South Carolina State House. That's an
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interesting thing. Your passion has always been obviously looking skyward.
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But tell us about the passion for being an artist
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and a sculptor. That's an incredible skill, something that I'm
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not even familiar with. Share with us a little bit
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about that. It's amazing.
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Well, I this is you know, a very verse change.
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I had two options to make a life's work. I
64
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grew up on a farm in Kansas City, and I
65
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came out of the chute making art from the time
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I was sort of school when I was two years old,
67
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and I started doing art. At that time, I was
68
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doing full bodies and when I was two and three
69
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and four years old, where the other kids was doing
70
00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:11.840
stick figures. And I was an artist all the way
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through school. As a matter of fact, when I graduated
72
00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.519
from high school, I got an art scholarship to the
73
00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:24.720
Kansity Art Institute. But the other alternative option I had
74
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was I grew up on a farm that was right
75
00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:33.279
next to the Sabine Airport Fairfax Airport in Kansas City,
76
00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:37.839
and from the from the time I was two and three,
77
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Mom used to take us to the me and my
78
00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:45.959
oldest sisters at the airport to tell stories about how
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big the world was, and this airport was a great
80
00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:53.800
vehicle because these planes took off and went some magic place,
81
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and they come back and they land and it'd been
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to some magic place. And I so I started going
83
00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:03.800
to the airport every day and I got my first
84
00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:06.720
flight and the Steerman when I was eight years old,
85
00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:14.399
I got a job cleaning out airplanes for pilots that
86
00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.959
are from Kansas and Missouri that went to Colorado for
87
00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.560
hunting trips. There was no war at the time, so
88
00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:26.120
as a results, I was around airplanes all of my
89
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early life, and I started studying about flying as and
90
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I didn't have any hopes of being a flying root
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for real, because all these people were around row white guys,
92
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you know, and I was this little little little brown
93
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kid going to the airport every day, and they kind
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of adopted me. But I got this fascinated with with
95
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fascination with flying. And I had a paper and I
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was throwing papers all the way through college, and I was,
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you know, I had this art scholarship, so I had
98
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to make a decision as to whether I was going
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to be an artist or or a pilot gun. But
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I was throwing my papers. I had a black paper
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rod and a white paper rout and I was, like
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I said, I was in college storm newspapers, and on
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the front page of the black paper was a black
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pilot was a tuskegeearm and they got shot down in Korea,
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and all of a sudden, I got this, oh my god,
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they're letting black folks fly airplanes and what. And I
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immediately apply for pilot training and they sent me to Denver.
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Thirty three able from this college to Denver, and I
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was the only I was the thirty three. I was
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the only one that passed a pilot training. Two other
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guys pass from a navigator And so the Air Force
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just sucked me right up and said, you know we
113
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want you now.
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You're right. In those days, African Americans were not probably
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what in the pilot seat. Much of your story is amazing.
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Ed Dwight, as we've mentioned before, a gentleman who was
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selected by President John F. Kennedy to be the first
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African American astronaut in space. The story continues that he
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finally got his wish and rightfully so, for his service
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to America by flying in Blue Origins NS twenty five
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mission in twenty twenty five. As thou build, not to
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put you in a different light here, but this is interesting.
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The oldest person to ever participate in a spaceflight previously
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held by William Shadner
