This wasn’t the first Blue Origin launch with marquee names. “Star Trek” actor William Shatner caught a lift to space with Blue Origin in 2021 at age 90, soon after Bezos’ inaugural trip.

The high-profile launch drew a crowd, with several famous faces in attendance, including Oprah Winfrey, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, former astronaut Mae Jemison, Kris Jenner and Khloé Kardashian.

This wasn’t the first Blue Origin launch with marquee names. “Star Trek” actor William Shatner caught a lift to space with Blue Origin in 2021 at age 90, soon after Bezos’ inaugural trip.

Beyond science, Jemison has made a cultural impact as well. She was the first real astronaut to appear on a Star Trek episode and has been honored with a LEGO minifigure in the Women of NASA set. She ...

The story goes like this: It was 1967, and reviews for the first season of Star Trek were not great. Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Nyota Uhura, had bigger issues with the show.

Mae Jemison -- the first Black woman in space -- was a fan of the show, and she even appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Nichols’ role as Uhura and Jemison’s achievements as an astronaut and Star Trek guest star highlight the connection between real-world barriers being broken and their representation on screen.

On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women and people of color were never selected to go to space. NASA didn ...

Additionally, she is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 1993, Jemison was the first astronaut to appear on the science fiction series, “Star Trek.” ...

Next former NASA astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, the first woman of color to travel to space, will speak. Jemison served six years as a NASA astronaut and went to space aboard the shuttle Endeavor in 1992.

When it came to giving a name to this new-ish shuttle, several were considered — from Einstein to Amelia Earhart to Marie Curie to Mae Jemison.

After being inspired by Lieutenant Uhura from Star Trek and Sally Ride’s spaceflight Jemison applied for entry into NASA, where she was rejected and subsequently accepted in 1987.