Dr. Mae C. Jemison is the first African American woman, on September 12, 1992, she traveled to space. Dr Mae C. Jemison, was born October 17, 1956. Dr. Mae Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama. She was raised in Chicago, Illinois. She was the youngest of three children.

In the beginning, Jemison discovered that NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) wanted someone for the space shuttle program, but since she wanted to finish her education she chose not to apply for the space shuttle program. Later on she graduated and became a medical doctor. Dr. Mae Jemison got a second chance to apply to NASA in 1985. She was called to train as an astronaut in February, 1987. Astronauts were trained in Houston, Texas.

She took classes at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Some of the classes she took were physics, astronomy, geology, oceanography, math, and meteorology. She was also trained in problem solving in space.

On September 12, 1992, at 10:23 a.m. Dr. Mae Jemison was on her way to space on a space shuttle called Endeavor, from Kennedy Space Center. The crew on the shuttle were: Curtis Brown, Jay Apt, Robert Gibson, Jan Davis, Mark Lee, Mamoru Mohri and of course Dr. Mae Jemison.

Some of the food she ate was soup, sandwiches, banana, cookies, shrimp, strawberries, and steak. No one took showers, only sponge baths. Some of the experiments included seeing  how the loss of calcium, motion sickness, and weightlessness affects animals and people. On September 22, 1992 she and the crew came back to Earth.

Dr. Mae Jemison was honored for organizing  New York city-wide health. Also she did Law Fair for Gamma Woman of the Year in 1979. She was honored with the establishment of the public school, Mae C. Jemison Academy in Detroit. She was honored with a National Scholarship. Dr. Mae C. Jemison graduated from high school in Chicago, Illinois in the year 1977. Dr. Mae Jemison visits the planetarium to help her learn more about space. Her parents names are Dorothy and Charlie Jemison, her parents encouraged her. Mae C. Jemison loved to read, learn, and dance, she also loved science. On March 1993, Dr. Mae Jemison left NASA.  Dr. Mae Jemison speaks four languges Japanese, fluent Russian, and Swahili, and English.
 

Credits:

http://quest.nasa.gov/women/TODTWD/jemison.bio.html

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/jemison.html

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/jemison-mc.html

http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/biographies/jemison/jemison-bio.html
Mae Jemison picture
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/07/cnn25.tan.jemison/