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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.
The Moon over Star is a 2008 picture book by Dianna Hutts Aston and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. It is about a girl, Mae (a nod to African American astronaut Mae Jemison ), who, with her family, follows the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing .
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 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 ...
The outcome of the study was the selection of an organization to carry the vision forward. The winning bid was the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence, partnering with Icarus Interstellar and the Foundation for Enterprise Development, led by the American physician and former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison.
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.
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 Astronaut ...
Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West, a middle/high school in Baltimore, Maryland, is named in his honor (along with Charles Drew and Mae Jemison). On October 8, 2021, a building on the main campus of The Pennsylvania State University in its Innovation Park was named the Guion S. Bluford Jr. Building in his honor.
In 1963 Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on her Vostok 6 flight of 48 orbits, and is the only woman to fly solo in space.. The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight.