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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.
Deborah Larsen's novel, The White (2002), is a fictional version of Jemison's life. It imagines her process of assimilation to the Seneca culture in which she lived. Jeanne LeMonnier Gardner's book, "Mary Jemison: Indian Captive" (Original title: "Mary Jemison: Seneca Captive") 1966, is a fictionalized account for children.
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.
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.
It is named for Mae Jemison, a native of nearby Decatur, Alabama who was the first African-American female astronaut. [ 2 ] The school is built on the same campus as McNair Junior High School, which is named for the late Ronald McNair , the second African-American astronaut in space, who was killed in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger .
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 ...
Meet the KC Current’s new team president. She’s “extremely intelligent, driven and someone people want to follow.”
Zendaya's parents are Claire Stoermer and Kazembe Coleman. Coleman's birth name was Samuel David Coleman, but he changed his name to Kazembe Ajamu as a tribute to his family roots in Nigeria.