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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.
STS-47 was NASA's 50th Space Shuttle mission of the program, as well as the second mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.The mission mainly involved conducting experiments in life and material sciences inside Spacelab-J, a collaborative laboratory inside the shuttle's payload bay sponsored by NASA and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA).
Higginbotham was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended Whitney Young Magnet High School, graduating in 1982. [2] She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1987, and a master's in management science (1992) and in space systems (1996) both from the Florida Institute of Technology.
Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut in space; she carried a picture of Bessie Coleman with her on her first mission Military history of African Americans Azellia White , the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license in Texas
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.
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] Sharon McDougle and Mae Jemison in KSC Suit Room. McDougle worked with NASA's Launch and Entry Suits. She maintained and repaired spacesuits and dressed astronauts ...
Former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison cited Nichols' role of Lieutenant Uhura as her inspiration for becoming an astronaut. Whoopi Goldberg has also spoken of Nichols' influence, [26] saying she asked for a role on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and her character Guinan was specially created, while Jemison appeared on an episode of the series. [27]
Julio Jemison (born 1994), Bahamian footballer; Mae Jemison (born 1956), American astronaut, engineer and physician; Marty Jemison (born 1965), American cyclist; Mary Jemison (1743–1833), Scots-Irish American frontierswoman; Mike Jemison (born 1983), American football player; Robert Jemison Jr. (1802–1871), American politician and entrepreneur