Ed Dwight’s giant leap took 60 years. The first Black person to be trained as an astronaut, Dwight at last reached space on Sunday aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. The delay helped make Dwight, who’s a few months older than William Shatner was during his flight, the oldest person to ever fly to space, NPR reports. Dwight was an astronaut candidate in the early 1960s but was never picked by NASA for a mission, though he was championed by President Kennedy, per the AP. Dwight left the Air Force and the space program, becoming a respected sculptor creating likenesses of historic African A…