Mae Jemison has inspired countless African American girls to dream bigger. Mae Jemison, born on October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama, is a trailblazing American astronaut, physician, and engineer.

Becoming an astronaut is hard enough, but one woman overcame obstacles to become the first African American woman in space. Born in the 1950s, Jemison would let nothing stop her from becoming one ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Dr. Mae Jemsion became the first woman of color in space when STS-47 launched from Kennedy Space Center in 1992. She explains what going to space meant to her ...

Having watched Sally Ride become the first American woman in space just a few years before, Jemison decided it was time to apply for NASA’s astronaut program. In 1987 she was accepted.

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 ...

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

More than 600 people who have launched into space. Only 100 have been women. Here are those who made milestones with their treks.

From Mae Jemison, the first Black female astronaut to travel in space, to Dr. Selma Masri, a biological chemistry professor ...

No, you can’t. But you can have a lot more—and do a lot more—than you think. Jemison, who holds degrees in engineering and medicine, went to space on the Endeavour in 1992. Back to Firsts ...