Ed Dwight has officially made ... first human flight in nearly two years, which Dwight was onboard for — making him the oldest person to go to space at age 90, according to ABC News.

Ed Dwight was the first Black man to train to be a NASA astronaut in the 1960s He is finally going to space at the age of 90 - the oldest on record READ MORE: NASA is looking for new astronauts ...

Up in space ... t the oldest person to ever take a spaceflight. That distinction is technically tied between "Star Trek" luminary William Shatner and former Air Force captain Ed Dwight, who ...

For Pettit - who has now spent a total of 590 days in space - it was his fourth mission. Still, he is not the oldest person to fly in orbit - that record belongs to John Glenn, who aged 77 flew on ...

At 90 years and 205 days, Shatner became the oldest person to go to space, surpassing Wally Funk ... broken by retired U.S. Air Force pilot Ed Dwight. Upon return to Earth, Shatner wrote about ...

In 1998, at the age of 77, Glenn returned to space, becoming the oldest person to do so. Of the 'Mercury Seven', Glenn was the last to die, in 2016, at the age of 95, leaving behind a legacy that ...

But NASA's oldest serving astronaut ... He was then set to fly to the Kazakh city of Karaganda before boarding a NASA plane to the agency's Johnson Space Center in Texas. The astronauts spent ...