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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.
2008 (Dial Books for Young Readers) ... It is about a girl, Mae (a nod to African American astronaut Mae Jemison), who, ...
[22] She was the Author Guest of Honor at Arisia 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. [23] In January 2016, Jemisin started writing "Otherworldly", a bimonthly column for The New York Times . [ 24 ] In May 2016, Jemisin mounted a Patreon campaign which raised sufficient funding to allow her to quit her job as a counseling psychologist and focus full ...
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).
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.
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
Biography portal; List of firsts in aviation; Eugene Bullard, the first African-American to earn a pilot's license; Leah Hing, first Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license; 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 ...