In September 1992, Dr Mae Jemison made history aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour as the first Black woman to travel into space.

From the time Mae Jemison was a little girl, she was convinced that she would go to space. No one could tell her otherwise. She was sure that space travel would be as common as air travel by the time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Mae Jemison, former NASA astronaut, author and entrepreneur, will visit the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith on April 9 to ...

Born Oct. 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama, and raised in Chicago, Mae Jemison showed a passion and talent for science from early in her childhood. After graduating high school by the age of 16, Jemison ...

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 Wind Goes, ...

Chatting with C&EN in a hotel room on a chilly February morning in Washington, D.C., Jemison is a formidable woman who exudes a calm competence. At 50, she describes her myriad successes as the sum of ...

Mae Jemison, a former NASA astronaut, physician, educator, and the first woman of color to go into space, will be the keynote speaker for Rochester Institute of Technology’s Academic Convocation on ...

As a child, Mae Jemison worried that aliens would get the wrong idea about humanity from looking at the all-white, all-male crews of the earliest space missions. 25 years ago today, she helped set the ...

Mae Jemison brought an impressive resume along when she entered astronaut training: Doctor, engineer, Peace Corps medical officer in Sierra Leone and Liberia. "By the time I got to NASA, I’d been ...

More than three decades after making history aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, Dr. Mae Jemison continues to inspire the next wave of space travelers while championing science and education on Earth.