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    Mae Jemison

    American astronaut, doctor and engineer (born )

    Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, ) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in and was selected to serve for the STS mission, during which the Endeavour orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20,

    Born in Alabama and raised in Chicago, Jemison graduated from Stanford University with degrees in chemical engineering as well as African and African-American studies. She then earned her medical degree from Cornell University. Jemison was a doctor for the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone from until and worked as a general practitioner. In pursuit of becoming an astronaut, she applied to NASA.

    Jemison left NASA in and founded a technology research company. She later formed a non-profit educat

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    Astronaut Mae Jemison,

    Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, ) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASAastronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in and was chosen to serve for the STS mission, during which she orbited the Earth for nearly eight days from September 12–20,

    Born in Alabama and raised in Chicago, Jemison graduated from Stanford University with degrees in chemical engineering as well as African and African-American studies. She then earned her medical degree from Cornell University. Jemison was a doctor for the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone from until and worked as a general practitioner. Because she wanted to be an astronaut, she applied to NASA.

    Jemison left NASA in and founded a technology research company, The Jemison Group, Inc., that encourages science, technology, and soci

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    Born in , Mae Jemison received degrees in Chemical Engineering and African American Studies and went on to become a medical doctor and officer in the Peace Corps.

    In , after watching Sally Ride, Jemison decided to apply to the astronaut schema at NASA. On September 12, , Jemison went into orbit aboard the space shuttle Endeavour as the first African American woman in space.

    Jemison left NASA in , continuing to work for the benefit of others as an educator, entrepreneur, and author.

    “Sometimes people want to tell you to act or to be a certain way. Sometimes people want to limit you because of their own imaginations” Mae Jemison, "Mae Jemison: Coming In From Outer Space." Ebony, December

    Childhood: Alabama to Chicago

    Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama on October 17, She spent her first three and a half years in the small Alabama town. Her mother, unhappy with job opportunities in the South, joined the Great Migration and moved to Chicago, Illinois. Her