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Dr. Mae Jemison broke barriers as NASA astronaut [1]

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Date: 2023-02-07  

Important NASA astronaut and woman of color.

“Never limit yourself because of others limited imagination.” --Dr. Mae Jemison.

In 1987, biomedical engineer Mae Jemison applied for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) astronaut program. NASA received over 2,000 applications. 100 people were interviewed and 15 people were selected for the astronaut program. Mae Jemison was one of them. Dr. Jemison was born on October 17, 1956. She was raised in Chicago, Il and was a student of Morgan Park High School. She graduated from Morgan High School and went on to Stanford University where she received her Bachelor of Arts in African and African-American Studies. After Stanford, she went on to Cornell University where she received her doctorate degree in medicine. In June 1987, she was selected as the science Mission Specialist on STS-47 spacelab.

“The first thing I saw from space was Chicago, my hometown. I was working on the middeck where there aren’t many windows, and as we passed over Chicago, the flight commander called me up to the flight deck. It was such a significant moment because since I was a little girl I had always assumed I would go into space.” Dr. Mae Jemison

Today girls of every color and culture can dream and make come true who they want to be in a world of Blue skies. Dr. Mae Jemison resigned from NASA in 1993, becoming the first Black American woman astronaut to go on a space mission.

Charles Micheaux

Atlanta*

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