Mae Jemison
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Mae Carol Jemison 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 1992.
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Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe.
Then & Now: Dr. Mae Jemison, CNN, 19 June 2005
People have this idea that science and the arts are really separate; we think of them as separate and different things.
https://www.ted.com/talks/mae_jemison_teach_arts_and_sciences_together/transcript
People talk about the '60s all the time. And they talk about the anarchy that was there.
https://www.ted.com/talks/mae_jemison_teach_arts_and_sciences_together/transcript
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Mae Carol Jemison 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 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected for the STS-47 mission, during which the Endeavour orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12-20, 1992.
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