Mae Jemison

Early life and education

Mae was born on October the 17^th 1956. She went to Morgan Park High School in Chicago, Illinois in 1966 then she graduated in 1973. After graduating Mae entered Cornell University Medical College to work towards a medical degree.

Later on in her life

Four years later after graduating she went to Stanford University studying chemical engineering in 1977. Mae then received a doctor of medicine degree. She then served in the Peace Corps in Africa. She was accepted on to NASA’s astronaut program in 1988; four years later, she became the first female black astronaut when she spent more than a week aboard the space shuttle Endeavour that was in orbit going around Earth.

After

After leaving NASA in 1993, she taught environmental studies at Dartmouth College.

By Zoe