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Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos' rocket company. The 90-year-old Dwight blasted off from West Texas with five other passengers on Sunday.

Saturday is May the 4th 鈥� also known to fans as Star Wars Day. To celebrate, we sit down to talk with Connie Willis, one of science fiction's most notable writers, who happens to live here in Northern Colorado. She shares her thoughts on our weird obsession with UFOs... and on why it's so important to contemplate the future.

The eclipse will take place around 10:30 a.m. Mountain Time, and mainly go over Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. It will also touch the Southwest corners of Colorado and Idaho.

An instrument developed by researchers at CU Boulder will be launching next fall to study Jupiter鈥檚 moon, Europa.

For the first time, scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have taken pictures of the sun's middle corona, one layer of the solar atmosphere responsible for spitting out material known as solar flares. The images could improve space weather forecasting and how we prepare for it on Earth.

Astronaut Megan McArthur grew up visiting national parks like Yosemite, Grand Canyon and Zion. Now she鈥檚 photographing them from 250 miles above the surface of Earth.

For the next week, Colorado鈥檚 night skies will be full of shooting stars. Despite the name, they aren鈥檛 actually stars 鈥� they鈥檙e space debris, and they鈥檙e part of the annual Perseid meteor shower.

NASA is planning two missions to Venus in order to study how the planet became Earth鈥檚 鈥渆vil twin.鈥� Colorado scientists are involved in each stage of the projects, which will launch at the end of the decade.

In the waning days of Donald Trump鈥檚 presidency, the Air Force announced that the headquarters for the U.S. Space Command should be located in Alabama. The decision meant that the command must be pulled out of Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs in the coming years and has spawned allegations of political favoritism from members of Colorado鈥檚 congressional delegation.

In Europe, engineers are planning to send a plywood-sheathed satellite into orbit to test how well the venerable construction material holds up in space.