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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.
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NASA was officially founded on Oct. 1, 1958, with the first several classes of astronauts being composed of all males. ... Dr. Mae Jemison was born just two years before NASA was founded and as a ...
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Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space, talks to aspiring scientist, speaker and activist Taylor Richardson about the history of Black women in STEM and the importance of ...
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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.