Name: I Was Poised to be the First Black Astronaut. I Never Made it to Space. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs
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I could have been the first black guy in space.

Was that my fate that I'll be remembered for that,

How the hell do you get famous for something you didn't do?

There rest burdens heavier than have rested

were appointed by Eisenhower, seven guys that

The way the story goes, the Kennedy White House said,

by making a black astronaut. One black guy on

You're going to go to engineering school.

All the pilots, the good pilots, the aces,

they all grew up on farms. Every one of them.

And the Fairfax airport was within walking distance.

I didn't know where these airplanes had been

And after a while, I said, “Why don't you just take me up?”

Immediately, when you can see past the horizon,

to this bigger and bigger and bigger space.

That whole expanse of stuff, you get even more curious

And what, if anything, can we do about it?

And I had a paper route for the white newspaper.

And I had a paper route for the black newspaper.

was a black jet pilot standing on the wing of an F-86 Saber

Oh, my god, they're letting black folks fly airplanes.

I almost stopped throwing papers that minute.

I went straight to the Air Force recruiting office.

I was an officer all the way through the whole thing.

all the Pentagon trapping, all this stuff on it.

So I secretly sent all my information in.

And within days, days, not weeks, months, years,

I got an assignment to go to Edwards Air Force Base for me

It seems like every street at Edwards Air Force Base

Every time I strapped that airplane on my behind,

And on top of that, I was told, Chuck Yeager, the guy that

had called the students and the instructor staff

into the auditorium and said, here's our plan.

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I Was Poised to be the First Black Astronaut. I Never Made it to Space. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs

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