Among The Stars
Who is Mae Carol Jemison?
Mae Carol Jemison is an 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. She knew from an early age that she wanted to study science, and someday go into space.
In 1973, at the age of sixteen, Jemison graduated from Morgan Park High School, and left Chicago to attend Stanford University in California. According to Women’s History, as one of the only African American students in her class, Jemison experienced racial discrimination in her school. She later served as president of the Black Students Union and choreographed a performing arts production – Out of the Shadows – about the African American experience. In 1977 she graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in African and African American studies.
After graduating from Stanford University Jemison attended Cornell Medical School. During that time, she traveled to Cuba to conduct a study funded by the American Medical Student Association. She also traveled to Thailand and worked at a Cambodian refugee camp. During her tears at Cornell, she continued to study dance and enrolled in classes at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. In 1981 Jemison graduated from Cornell with a Doctrine in Medicine.
In 1983, Sally Ride and Guion Bluford inspired her to apple to the astronaut program. She first applied in October 1985, however NASA postponed selection of new candidates. In 1987 she reapplied, and was chosen out of roughly 2,000 applicants, to be one of the 15 people in the NASA Astronaut Group 12. Jemison was also selected to join the STS-47 crew as a Mission Specialist and received her first mission on September 28th, 1989.
On September 12, 1992, Jemison and six other astronauts went into space on the space shuttle Endeavor. It was a cooperative mission between the United States and Japan that lasted from September 12 to the 20th. As stated by Wikipedia, Jemison logged 190 hours, 30 minutes, 23 seconds in space, and orbited the Earth 127 times. After her return to Earth, and servicing as an astronaut for 6 years, she resigned from NASA in March 1993, with the intentions of stating her own company. Later those years she founded The Jemison Group Inc, and the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence, honoring her mother.
Mae Jemison is currently leading the 100 Year Starship project, which works to make sure human space travel to another star is possible within the next hundred years.
Books
*Kids*
Mae Among the Star – Roda Ahmed
Mae Jemison: A Kid’s Book About Reaching Your Dreams – Mary Nhin
Find where the Wind Goes: Moments from My Life – Mae C. Jemison
Mae C. Jemison – Meeg Pincus
*Adults*
The Voyage of Mae Jemison *Social Studies Emergent Readers* - Susan Canizares , Samantha Berger
Source(s)
"Mae Jemison." Women's History, 2018-2019, https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mae-jemison
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