Mae Jemison was born October 17, 1956 in Decatur, ... By the time she graduated Stanford in 1977, she had earned a BS in chemical engineering, a BA in African and Afro-American studies.

Mae Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama on October 17, 1956, the youngest of three children. The Jemison family moved to Chicago when Mae was only three. It was in Chicago that an uncle introduced ...

Astronaut Mae Jemison: On Sept. 12, 1992 she became the first black woman in space, ... She graduated from Stanford in 1977 and got her medical degree from Cornell in 1981.

Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African-American woman to enter space. Dr. Jemison has a chemical engineering degree from Stanford and a M.D. from Cornell. Jemison spent two years in Africa with the ...

Mae Jemison, physician and NASA astronaut, became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. She is pictured here ...

Dr. Mae Jemison—physician, engineer, educator, social scientist, entrepreneur and former NASA astronaut—was the first woman of color in the world to go into space. Her book, Find Where the ...

Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to become an astronaut. An engineer and physician, she was selected from among 15 finalists out two thousand applicants to be an astronaut. In 1992 she ...

The Stanford University graduate earned her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, ... Mae Jemison NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 12: (L-R) Ann Druyan, Producer, ...

Call it “Revamp of the Nerds.” Or, in today’s terms, spin control. That is the thrust of Mae Jemison, a physician and engineer who rode into space in 1992 aboard the space shuttle Endeavor.

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 . The ...