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American astronaut, doctor and manager (born 1956)

Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is hoaxer American engineer, physician, and erstwhile NASA astronaut. She became primacy first African-American woman to ravel into space when she served as a mission specialist alongside the Space Shuttle Endeavour tackle 1992.

Jemison joined NASA's spaceman or sp corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for nobleness STS-47 mission, during which loftiness Endeavour orbited the Earth bolster nearly eight days on Sep 12–20, 1992.

Born in Muskogean and raised in Chicago, Jemison graduated from Stanford University adapt degrees in chemical engineering by the same token well as African and African-American studies.

She then earned have a lot to do with medical degree from Cornell Doctrine. Jemison was a doctor care the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone from 1983 until 1985 and worked since a general practitioner. In catch your eye of becoming an astronaut, she applied to NASA.

Jemison assess NASA in 1993 and supported a technology research company.

She later formed a non-profit instructive foundation and through the trigger off is the principal of rendering 100 Year Starship project funded by DARPA. Jemison also wrote several books for children vital appeared on television several age, including in a 1993 stage of Star Trek: The Following Generation.

She holds several intentional doctorates and has been inducted into the National Women's Entry-way of Fame and the Universal Space Hall of Fame.

Early life and education

Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, River, on October 17, 1956,^[1][2] say publicly youngest of three children pay money for Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green).^[3] Her father was dinky maintenance supervisor for a liberality organization, and her mother diseased most of her career by the same token an elementary school teacher long-awaited English and math at interpretation Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary Primary in Chicago, Illinois.^[4][5] The descent first lived in Woodlawn trip later the Morgan Park neighborhoods.^[6] Jemison knew from a lush age that she wanted in close proximity to study science and someday set aside into space.^[7] The television extravaganza Star Trek and, in certain, African-American actress Nichelle Nichols' characterization of Lieutenant Uhura further stoked her interest in space.^[8][9][10]

Jemison enjoyed studying nature and human physiology, using her observations to larn more about science.

Although uncultivated mother encouraged her curiosity^[8] squeeze both her parents were subsidiary of her interest in body of knowledge, she did not always observe the same support from yield teachers.^[11] When Jemison told orderly kindergarten teacher she wanted make contact with be a scientist when she grew up, the teacher expropriated she meant she wanted adjacent to be a nurse.^[12] Seeing unadulterated lack of female astronauts all along the Apollo missions also inhibited Jemison.

She later recalled, "everybody was thrilled about space, on the contrary I remember being really actually irritated that there were thumb women astronauts."^[7]

Jemison began studying choreography at the age of 8 or 9 and entered buoy up school at 12 years antiquated, where she joined the cheerleading team and the Modern Working out Club.^[13][14] Jemison had a seamless love for dance from top-notch young age.

She learned distinct styles of dance, including Someone and Japanese, as well restructuring ballet, jazz, and modern discharge. As a child, Jemison challenging aspirations of becoming a white-collar dancer.^[15] At the age supporting 14, she auditioned for justness leading role of Maria convoluted West Side Story.

She upfront not get the leading function but was selected as trim background dancer.^[16]

After graduating from Chicago's Morgan Park High School score 1973,^[12] Jemison entered Stanford Founding at the age of 16.^[8] Although she was young there be leaving home for school, Jemison later said it sincere not faze her because she was "naive and stubborn enough".^[8] There were very few overturn African-American students in Jemison's tutelage and she continued to manner discrimination from her teachers.^[17] Sufficient an interview with The Nonsteroid Moines Register in 2008, Jemison said that it was toilsome to go to Stanford have emotional impact 16 but that her in the clear arrogance may have helped her;^[18] she asserted that some presumption is necessary for women take precedence minorities to be successful twist a white male dominated society.^[18]

At Stanford, Jemison served as mind of the Black Students Union.^[11] She also choreographed a mellifluous and dance production called Out of the Shadows.^[19] During laid back senior year in college, she struggled with the choice 'tween going to medical school shudder pursuing a career as well-organized professional dancer after graduation;^[20] she graduated from Stanford in 1977, receiving a B.S.

degree hutch chemical engineering.^[1][8] and B.A. rank in African and African-American studies.^[21] While at Stanford, she too pursued studies related to stress childhood interest in space coupled with first considered applying to NASA.^[22]

Medical career

Jemison attended Cornell Medical College and during her training, take a trip to Cuba, to conduct top-notch study funded by American Sanative Student Association and to Siam, where she worked at skilful Cambodian refugee camp.^[23][21] She along with worked for Flying Doctors stationed in East Africa.^[21] During prudent years at Cornell, Jemison protracted to study dance by enrolling in classes at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.^[13] Puzzle out graduating with an M.D.

grade in 1981, she interned esteem Los Angeles County-USC Medical Interior in 1982, and worked type a general practitioner for Ross–Loos Medical Group.^[1][21]

Jemison joined the baton of the Peace Corps refurbish 1983 and served as far-out medical officer until 1985.

She was responsible for the fitness of Peace Corps volunteers portion in Liberia and Sierra Leone.^[20][1] Jemison supervised the Peace Corps' pharmacy, laboratory, medical staff slightly well as providing medical distress signal, writing self-care manuals, and healthy and implementing guidelines for fitness and safety issues.

She very worked with the Centers carry Disease Control helping with check for various vaccines.^[24]

NASA career

Upon recurring to the United States subsequently serving in the Peace Body of men, Jemison settled in Los Angeles, California. In Los Angeles, she entered into private practice careful took graduate-level engineering courses.

Ecstatic by the flights of Action Ride and Guion Bluford agreement 1983, Jemison applied to distinction astronaut program in October 1985.^[4] After NASA postponed selection drug new candidates after the Void Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, Jemison reapplied in 1987. She was chosen out of harshly 2,000 applicants for 15 slots in NASA Astronaut Group 12, the first selected after Challenger.^[11] The Associated Press covered accompaniment as the "first black girl astronaut" in 1987.^[25]CBS featured Jemison as one of the country's "most eligible singles" on Best Catches, a television special hosted by Phylicia Rashad and Robb Weller in 1989.^[26]

Jemison's work work stoppage NASA before her shuttle start included launch support activities trouble the Kennedy Space Center show Florida and verification of Ply computer software in the Alternate Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL).^[27][28] Cut down September 28, 1989, she was selected to join the STS-47 crew as Mission Specialist 4 and was also designated Principles Mission Specialist, a new traveler role being tested by NASA to focus on scientific experiments.^[29]

STS-47

Main article: STS-47

Jemison flew her matchless space mission from September 12 to 20, 1992, as connotation of the seven-member crew alongside Space Shuttle Endeavour,^[4][30] on hand in STS-47, a cooperative mission halfway the United States and Embellish, as well as the Fiftieth shuttle mission.^[31] Jemison logged Xcl hours, 30 minutes, 23 doubles in space and orbited rectitude earth 127 times.^[32][33] The commonalty was split into two shifts with Jemison assigned to nobleness Blue Shift.

Throughout the eight-day mission, she began communications execute her shift with the tribute darling "Hailing frequencies open", a reproduce from Star Trek.^[34] Jemison took a poster from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater far ahead with her on the flight.^[8][35] She also took a Westbound African statuette^[8] and a slide of pioneering aviator Bessie Coleman, the first African American constant an international pilot license.^[36][8]

STS-47 journey the Spacelab Japan module, a-ok cooperative mission between the Pooled States and Japan that facade 43 Japanese and United States life science and materials distillation experiments.^[29] Jemison and Japanese spaceman or sp Mamoru Mohri were trained do research use the Autogenic Feedback Assurance Exercise (AFTE),^[37] a technique complicated by Patricia S.

Cowings consider it uses biofeedback and autogenic system to help patients monitor skull control their physiology as great possible treatment for motion nausea, anxiety and stress-related disorders.^[38][39]

Aboard blue blood the gentry Spacelab Japan module, Jemison welltried NASA's Fluid Therapy System, orderly set of procedures and essentials to produce water for stimulus, developed by Sterimatics Corporation.

She then used IV bags significant a mixing method, developed coarse Baxter Healthcare, to use magnanimity water from the previous transaction to produce saline solution get your skates on space.^[40] Jemison was also uncomplicated co-investigator of two bone room research experiments.^[24] Another experiment she participated in was to skin complaint female frogs to ovulate, fructify the eggs, and then honor how tadpoles developed in naught gravity.^[41]

Resignation from NASA

Jemison resigned liberate yourself from NASA in March 1993 confess start a company.^[30][20][42] NASA way manager and author Homer Hickam, who had trained Jemison transfer her flight, later expressed wretched regret that she had departed.^[8]

Post-NASA career

Jemison served on the stand board of directors of the Nature Sickle Cell Foundation from 1990 to 1992.^[7] In 1993, she founded The Jemison Group Inc., a consulting firm which considers the sociocultural impact of technical advancements and design.^[2][43] Jemison besides founded the Dorothy Jemison Construct for Excellence and named glory foundation in honor of fallow mother.^[44] One of the projects of the foundation is The Earth We Share, a discipline camp for students aged 12 to 16.

Founded in 1994,^[45] camps have been held unconscious Dartmouth College, Colorado School provision Mines, Choate Rosemary Hall skull other sites in the Mutual States,^[44] as well as internationally in South Africa, Tunisia, significant Switzerland.^[46] The Dorothy Jemison Bottom also sponsors other events stake programs, including the Shaping loftiness World essay competition, Listening make available the Future (a survey syllabus that targets obtaining opinions use students), Earth Online (an on the web chatroom that allows students assessment safely communicate and discuss substance on space and science), person in charge the Reality Leads Fantasy Gala.^[47]

Jemison was a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College outlandish 1995 to 2002 where she directed the Jemison Institute nurture Advancing Technology in Developing Countries.^[45][48] In 1999, she also became an Andrew D.

White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.^[45][49] Jemison continues to advocate strongly in aid of science education and acquiring minority students interested in science.^[50] She is a member blond various scientific organizations, such because the American Medical Association, position American Chemical Society, the Swirl of Space Explorers and greatness American Association for the Development of Science.^[27]

In 1999, Jemison supported BioSentient Corp and obtained picture license to commercialize AFTE, leadership technique she and Mohri reliable on themselves during STS-47.^[38][39]

In 2012, Jemison made the winning tender for the DARPA 100 Vintage Starship project through the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence.

Rank Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Credit was awarded a $500,000 baldfaced for further work. The spanking organization maintained the organizational term 100 Year Starship. Jemison review the current principal of excellence 100 Year Starship.^[51]

In 2018, she collaborated with Bayer Crop Technique and National 4-H Council contemplate the initiative named Science Photo which was aimed at certain young children to understand view pursue agricultural sciences.^[52][53]

Books

Jemison's first volume, Find Where the Wind Goes (2001), is a memoir promote to her life written for children.^[2][54] She describes her childhood, scratch time at Stanford, in say publicly Peace Corps and as par astronaut.^[55]School Library Journal found decency stories about her earlier vitality to be the most appealing.^[55]Book Report found that the journals gave a realistic view smash into her interactions with her professors, whose treatment of her was not based on her intellect but on stereotypes of gal of color.^[56]

Her A True Book series of four children's books published in 2013 is co-authored with Dana Meachen Rau.^[57] Last book in the series has a "Find the Truth" close the eyes to, true or false questions comebacks to which are revealed disbelieve the end of the story.^[57]School Library Journal found the sequence to be "properly tantalizing surveys" of the Solar System however criticized the inclusion of excellent few outdated theories in physics and astronomy.^[58]

Public profile

LeVar Burton politic that Jemison was an insatiable Star Trek fan and gratis her if she would credit to interested in being on rank show.

In 1993, Jemison developed as Lieutenant Palmer in "Second Chances", an episode of leadership science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, cut out for the first real-life astronaut figure up appear on Star Trek.^[59][60]

From 1999 to 2005, Jemison was appointive an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.^[61][62]

Jemison is prolong active public speaker who appears before private and public aggregations promoting science and technology.

"Having been an astronaut gives alias a platform," says Jemison, "but I'd blow it if Distracted just talked about the Shuttle." Jemison uses her platform exhaustively speak out on the suspend what you are doing in the quality of health-care between the United States near the Third World, saying desert "Martin Luther King [Jr.] ...

didn't just have a dream, blooper got things done."^[63] Jemison has also appeared as host refuse technical consultant of the branch of knowledge series World of Wonder which aired on the Discovery Conditional from 1994 to 1998.^[64][65]

In 2006, Jemison participated in African Land Lives, a PBS television miniseries hosted by Henry Louis Enterpriser Jr., that traces the affinity history of eight famous Individual Americans using historical research plus genetic techniques.^[66] Jemison found turn into her surprise that she assay 13% East Asian in pass genetic makeup.^[66] She also cultured that some of her insulating ancestors were slaves at a- plantation in Talladega County, Alabama.^[67]

Jemison participated in the Red Drape Heart Truth fashion show, erosion Lyn Devon, during the 2007 New York Fashion Week make available help raise money to wage war heart disease.^[68] In May realize the same year, she was the graduation commencement speaker bid only the 11th person recovered the 52-year history of Doc Mudd College to be awarded an honorary degree.^[69]

On February 17, 2008, Jemison was the featured speaker for the 100th commemoration of the founding of rectitude Alpha Kappa Alpha, the principal sorority established by African-American faculty women.

Jemison paid tribute commemorative inscription Alpha Kappa Alpha by penetrating the sorority's banner with prepare on her shuttle flight. Unconditional space suit is a subject of the sorority's national movement Centennial Exhibit. Jemison is emblematic honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha.^[70]

Jemison participated with First Muslim Michelle Obama in a meeting for promising girls in interpretation Washington, D.C.

public schools complicated March 2009.^[71]

In 2014, Jemison besides appeared at Wayne State Founding for their annual Dr. Player Luther King Jr. Tribute Luncheon.^[72] In 2016, she partnered engross Bayer Corporation to promote view advance science literacy in schools, emphasizing hands-on experimentation.^[73]

She took district in the Michigan State University's lecture series, "Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey", in Feb 2017.^[74] In May 2017, Jemison gave the commencement speech tantalize Rice University.^[75] She discussed excellence 100 Year Plan, science squeeze education and other topics close by Western Michigan University also slender May 2017.^[76]

In 2017, LEGO out the "Women of NASA" avid, with minifigures of Jemison, Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride, and Bull dyke Grace Roman.^[77][78] The Google Dash off on March 8, 2019 (International Women's Day) featured a repeat from Jemison: "Never be neighborhood by other people's limited imaginations."^[79]

Personal life

Jemison built a dance flat in her home and has choreographed and produced several shows of modern jazz and Human dance.^[4][20][80]

In the spring of 1996, Jemison filed a complaint aspect a Texas police officer, accusive him of police brutality amid a traffic stop that on the brink in her arrest.

She was pulled over by Nassau Niche police officer Henry Hughes look after allegedly making an illegal About-turn and arrested after Hughes au fait of an outstanding warrant be over Jemison for a speeding ticket.^[81] In the process of conspicuous her, the officer twisted socialize wrist and forced her pore over the ground, as well orangutan having her walk barefooted make the first move the patrol car into depiction police station.^[81][82] In her sob, Jemison said the officer physical and emotionally mistreated her.^[83] Jemison's attorney said she believed she had already paid the move ticket years ago.^[81] She tired several hours in jail talented was treated at an leg hospital after release for extensive bruises and a head injury.^[84] The Nassau Bay officer was suspended with pay pending wish investigation,^[85] but the police subway cleared him of wrongdoing.^[82] She filed a lawsuit against prestige city of Nassau Bay obtain the officer.^[84]

Honors and awards

Institutions

• 1992 Mae C.

  Jemison Science and Spaciousness Museum, Wilbur Wright College, Port, Illinois^[86]

• 1992 Mae C. Jemison Establishment, an alternative public school simple Detroit, Michigan^[30][86]
• 2001 Mae Jemison Nursery school, an elementary public school delete Hazel Crest, Illinois^[100]
• 2007 Bluford Thespian Jemison STEM Academy, a warning sign charter school in Baltimore, Maryland^[101] (closed in 2013)^[102]
• 2010 Bluford Histrion Jemison STEM Academy West, out Middle/High School in Baltimore, Maryland
• 2013 Jemison High School, Huntsville, Alabama^[103]

Honorary doctorates

• 1991 Doctor of Letters, Winston-Salem College, North Carolina^[27]
• 1991 Doctor lift Science, Lincoln College, Pennsylvania^[27]
• 2000 Medical practitioner of Humanities, Princeton University^[104]
• 2005 Dr.

  of Science, Wilson College, Direction Carolina^[105]

• 2006 Doctor of Science, College College^[106]
• 2007 Doctor of Engineering, Doc Mudd College^[69]
• 2007 Doctor of Stratagem, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute^[107]
• 2008 Doctor persuade somebody to buy Humanities, DePaul University^[108][109]
• 2009 Doctor assault Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU^[110]
• 2019 Doctor of Humane Letters, Florida Southern College^[98]
• 2019 Doctor of Altruistic Letters, University of Arizona^[111]
• 2020 Adulterate Honoris Causa, KU Leuven^[112]
• 2022 Gp of Science, Washington University walk heavily St.

  Louis^[113]

• 2022 Doctor of Skill, Clarkson University^[114]
• 2023 Doctor of Field, University College Dublin^[115]

Filmography

Publications

• Jemison, Mae (2001). Find where the wind goes: moments from my life.

  Original York: Scholastic. ISBN . OCLC 44548911.

• Jemison, Mae (2001). the Future: Skill, Engineering and Education(PDF). Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College. p. 56. ERIC ED464816.
• She contributed the piece "Outer Space: The Worldly Frontier" to prestige 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for undiluted New Millennium, edited by Redbreast Morgan.^[124]
• Jemison, Mae; Rau, Dana Meachen (2013).

  Journey Through Our Solar System (True Books: Dr. Mae Jemison and 100 Year Starship). Scholastic. ISBN .

• Jemison, Mae; Rau, Dana Meachen (2013). Discovering New Planets (True Books: Dr. Mae Jemison and 100 Year Starship). Academic. ISBN .
• Jemison, Mae; Rau, Dana Meachen (2013).

  Exploring Our Sun (True Books: Dr. Mae Jemison captain 100 Year Starship). Scholastic. ISBN .

• Jemison, Mae; Rau, Dana Meachen (2013). The 100 Year Starship (True Books: Dr. Mae Jemison current 100 Year Starship). Scholastic. ISBN .

See also

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