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Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, [1] [2] the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green). [3] Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math at the Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1990, she joined the Space Shuttle Crew Escape Equipment (CEE) department of Boeing Aerospace Operations, a contractor for NASA. Her first mission was STS-37. She suited up Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in NASA's astronaut corps, for STS-47. [3] McDougle led the first all-women team of spacesuit technicians in support of STS-78. [4]
The group's informal nickname is an acronym for "George Abbey Final Fifteen". [58]Of this group, Mae Jemison would become the first female African-American in space, [59] Bruce Melnick the first Coast Guard aviator in space, [60] while Michael Foale would fly aboard the Mir space station. [37]
Next former NASA astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, the first woman of color to travel to space, will speak. Jemison served six years as a NASA astronaut and went to space aboard the shuttle Endeavor in 1992.
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Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham (born August 3, 1964) is an electrical engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist [2] and is the third African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison and Stephanie Wilson. [2]
Administrator of NASA, July 17, 2009 – January 20, 2017 STS-61-C (January 12, 1986) STS-31 (April 24, 1990) STS-45 (March 24, 1992) STS-60 (February 3, 1994) [2] 5 Mae Jemison October 17, 1956 First African-American woman in space STS-47 (September 12, 1992) [2] 6 Bernard A. Harris Jr. June 26, 1956 First African American to walk in space
In 1992 Mae Jemison became the first woman of color in space. Susan Helms became the first woman on an ISS expedition crew on Expedition 2 , lasting from March 2001 until August 2001. [ 30 ] Peggy Whitson became in 2007 the first woman to command the International Space Station, [ 33 ] and in October 2009 NASA's first female Chief of the ...