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Astronaut Mae C. Jemison is shown aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour as Science Mission Specialist on the STS-47 NASA Space lab-J flight, a US/Japan joint mission, in Sept. 1992. As part of the Autogenic Feedback Tranining Experiment (AFTE), Dr. Jemison is wearing the headband and other monitoring gear at various times during the flight in support of physiological evaluations. Dr. Jemison became the first black woman to orbit into space on Sept. 12. (AP Photo/NASA)

Mae Carol Jemison: Stanford at 16 to First Black Woman in Space

February 25, 2016

By: Irene Ciocirlan She had a dream. Mae Carol Jemison, the first African American woman to fly to space, has greatly impacted black history. Black History Month was created in 1976 to celebrate...

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