Mae C. Jemison is a pioneer in more ways than one. In 1992, as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, Jemison, the first Black female astronaut, also became the first Black woman in ...

Dr. Mae C. Jemison is currently leading 100 Year Starship (100YSS), an initiative seed funded by DOD’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to assure the capability for human interstellar ...

Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first African-American woman astronaut to travel to space, has always pushed the boundaries of what some people thought possible for her. In her book, “Find Where the Wind Goes ...

Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first African American female astronaut, will give a lecture at the Learning Clinics in Camarillo on Aug. 23. Jemison, a physician and engineer, was a crew member of a 1992 ...

March 10, 2001, Greencastle, Ind. - For Mae C. Jemison, the dream of space travel began as she sat in her southside Chicago backyard as a little girl. "I would stare at the stars," Dr. Jemison told a ...

Sept. 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1609, Henry Hudson discovered what is now known as the Hudson River. In 1940, near Montignac, France, the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings, believed to ...

Former astronaut Dr. Mae C. Jemison, who was the first African-American woman in space, will deliver the commencement address at the UA’s graduation ceremony. Commencement is at 7:30 p.m. May 10 at ...

US astronaut, doctor and engineer Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to go into space in 1992. She was one of seven crew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, on a mission named STS-47. A ...

To recognize the extraordinary achievements of individuals who go above and beyond to serve the nation, the West Point Association of Graduates presented Dr. Mae C. Jemison with the 2021 Sylvanus ...

Becoming an astronaut is hard enough, but one woman overcame obstacles to become the first African American woman in space. Born in the 1950s, Jemison would let nothing stop her from becoming one of ...