Mae Jemison is the third daughter of Charles and Dorothy, carpenter and teacher respectively, who took their education very seriously. Since she was very young, she clearly wanted to be a scientist and before going to high school she became interested in the subject of space. He graduated in Secondary at 16 years old. He studied at Stanford University with a scholarship obtaining a degree in chemical engineering. Then he received his doctorate in Medicine from Cornell University in 1981. From 1983 to 1985 he joined the Peace Corps serving as a military doctor in the area in West Africa, especially in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
On June 4, 1987, Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to be admitted to NASA's astronaut training program, and in 1992 she was the first African-American woman to travel into space. She traveled to the edge Endeavor in the STS47 mission, and during the eight days he was in space, Mae Jemison conducted experiments on weightlessness and motion sickness in the crew and herself. In total it was 190 hours in space. From serving at NASA from 1987 to 1993, Jemison founded the Jemison Group, Inc., which developed ALAFIYA, a satellite-based telecommunications system. The purpose of this system was to improve medical care in developing countries.
Jemison has been a professor at Cornell University and Dartmouth College from 1995 to 2002. She participates in several scientific organizations such as the American Medical Association, the American Chemical Society, the Association for Space Explorers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
On June 4, 1987, Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to be admitted to NASA's astronaut training program, and in 1992 she was the first African-American woman to travel into space. She traveled to the edge Endeavor in the STS47 mission, and during the eight days he was in space, Mae Jemison conducted experiments on weightlessness and motion sickness in the crew and herself. In total it was 190 hours in space. From serving at NASA from 1987 to 1993, Jemison founded the Jemison Group, Inc., which developed ALAFIYA, a satellite-based telecommunications system. The purpose of this system was to improve medical care in developing countries.
Jemison has been a professor at Cornell University and Dartmouth College from 1995 to 2002. She participates in several scientific organizations such as the American Medical Association, the American Chemical Society, the Association for Space Explorers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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