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 ...

Emarald Diamond has operated a nonprofit since she was 6, while balancing school and being the only girl on her football team ...

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 ...

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

During her freshman year at Boston College, Bailey Renger got a chance to meet Mae Carol Jemison, a former NASA astronaut who made history as the first Black woman to travel to outer space. Their ...

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 ...

During her freshman year at Boston College, Bailey Renger got a chance to meet Mae Carol Jemison, a former NASA astronaut who made history as the first Black woman to travel to outer space. Their ...