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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 STS-55 (April 26, 1993) STS-63 (February 3, 1995) [2] 7 Winston E. Scott August 6, 1950 Veteran of three spacewalks STS-72 (January 11, 1996) STS-87 (November 19, 1997) [2] 8 Robert Curbeam March 5 ...
The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts , who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration , and it would be almost twenty years before another flew ...
Space opera: 1997 1 season, 13 episodes: Sliders (seasons 4–5) Science fiction fantasy drama: 1998–2000 2 seasons, 40 episodes: Previously aired on Fox for seasons 1–3. First Wave: Science fiction: 1998–2001 3 seasons, 66 episodes: Co-production with Space. Farscape: Science fiction: 1999–2003 4 seasons, 88 episodes: Co-production ...
Find out what groundbreaking organization Ida B. Wells helped to found, who the first Black woman in space was, ... out of 2,000 applicants, she was selected to train at Kennedy Space Center. On ...
We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program. University of Texas Press. [214] Shetterly, Margot Lee (2016). Hidden Figures: The American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. [1] Walker, Erica N (2014). Beyond Banneker: Black mathematicians and the path to excellence ...
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is set to become the first Black woman to live and work in space on a long-duration mission at the International Space Station.
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.
The role of women in and affiliated with NASA has varied over time. As early as 1922 women were working as physicists and in other technical positions. [1] Throughout the 1930s to the present, more women joined the NASA teams not only at Langley Memorial, but at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Glenn Research Center, and other numerous NASA sites throughout the United States. [2]