Mae Jemison is an American engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut. Born in Decatur, Alabama, in 1956 and raised in Chicago, she studied at Stanford University, where she took a degree in chemical engineering alongside one in African and African-American studies, and then earned a medical degree at Cornell University. She served as a Peace Corps doctor in Liberia and Sierra Leone before joining NASA's astronaut corps in 1987. In September 1992 she flew as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-47, becoming the first African-American woman to travel into space. After leaving NASA in 1993 she founded a technology research company and a non-profit educational foundation, and she leads the 100 Year Starship project funded by DARPA.
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Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut.
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Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut.
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She became the first African-American woman to travel into space
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is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut
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receiving a B.S. degree in chemical engineering and B.A. degree in African and African-American studies
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