Mae Jemison was born October 17 ... The commander invited her upstairs to check out the view as the shuttle passed over Chicago. She looked down and smiled on the memory of that little girl ...

In 1992, Mae Jemison made history as the first African American woman to travel to space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, cementing her legacy as a pioneer in both the scientific and social ...

One of the crew, Mission Specialist Four Mae Jemison, was making history ... she worked at the space centre and on computer software at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory.

Jemison applied for the astronaut program at NASA in 1985. Unfortunately, NASA stopped accepting applications after the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986. Jemison tried her luck again in ...

BROOKSVILLE — Nehemiah Johnson has a hero in astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel to space. A group of ...

Mae Jemison is a physician, engineer, educator, entrepreneur and the first woman of color in the world to go into space - she was a NASA astronaut for six years. Currently Mae devotes much of her ...

Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman in space in 1992 proving that the sky is never the limit for future dreams and possibilities Thanks to Taylor Harris, a 12th Grader at Airline ...

the new home of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. In 1987, engineer and scientist Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African American woman admitted to NASA’s astronaut training program. In 1992 ...