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Mae Carol Jemison is an American physician, NASA astronaut, engineer and doctor. In 1992, she became the first Afro-american woman to go to space, serving as an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Mae Carol Jemison is an American physician, NASA astronaut, engineer and doctor. In 1992, she became the first Afro-american woman to go to space, serving as an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Mae was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama, USA. She is the youngest of three children. Her father, Charlie Jemison, was a roofer and carpenter and her mother, Dorothy Green, was an elementary school teacher.
Her parents took her education very serious, and when Mae was three years old, the family moved to Chicago, where she could take advantage of better educational opportunities.
As a child, she spent a lot of time in the school library, reading lots of books about all aspects of science, especially astronomy. She graduated from Morgan Park High School at the age of 16 (in 1973) and she entered Stanford University on a National Achievement Scholarship. There, she earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical enigneering in 1977. Upon graduation, she entered Cornell University Medical College, and she obtained her M.D. degree in 1981.
After that, Mae interned at Los Angeles County - USC Medical Center, and in 1982, she worked as a general practitioner. She also joined the staff of the Peace Corps, where she served as a medical officer from 1983 to 1985 in Liberia and Sierra Leona.
LEGACY
LEGACY
After being admitted into the NASA astronaut training program in 1987, in 1992 she became the first Afro-american woman to go to space, abroad the Space Shuttle Endeavour. She spent eight days in space, conducting experiments on weightlessness and motion sickness on the crew and herself. She returned to Earth on September 20, 1992.
She resigned from NASA in March 1983, and later, she founded her own company, the Jemison Group that researches, markets, and develops advanced science and technology. She also went on to teach at Dartmouth College.
Mae has received lots of honors and awards:
- She received several honorary doctorates.
- The 1988 Essence Science and Technology Award.
- The Ebony Black Achievement Award in 1992.
- Montgomery Fellowship from Dartmouth College in 1993.
- She was also named Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year in 1990.
- In 1992, the Mae C. Jemison Academy, an alternative public school in Detroit was named after her.
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