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Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, [1] [2] the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green). [3] Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math at the Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.
STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September 5, 1983, conducting the first night launch and night landing of the Space Shuttle program. It also carried the first African-American astronaut, Guion Bluford.
First BaháΚΌí in space; died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster: STS-41-B (February 3, 1984) STS-51-L (January 28, 1986) [2] 3 Frederick D. Gregory January 7, 1941 First African American to pilot and command a Space Shuttle mission; acting Administrator of NASA, 2005 STS-51-B (April 29, 1985) STS-33 (November 22, 1989) STS-44 (November ...
Second African-American Space Shuttle pilot, Charles Bolden; Last successful mission before STS-51-L [72] [73] 25 28 January 1986 16:38:00 UTC 11:38:00 EST STS-51-L: Challenger: 7 00d 00h 01m 13s LC-39B: Did not land [b] Planned tracking and data relay satellite deployment; Teacher in space flight; First Space Shuttle launch from LC-39B
Edwards Air Force Base in California was the site of the first Space Shuttle landing, and became a back-up site to the prime landing location, the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center. Several runways are arrayed on the dry lakebed at Rogers Dry Lake, [6] and there are also concrete runways. Space shuttle landings on the lake ...
First African-American to pilot and command a mission: Frederick Gregory (April 29, 1985, STS-51-B; November 23, 1989, STS-33) First American to launch on a Russian rocket: Norman Thagard (March 14, 1995, Soyuz TM-21) [109] First American woman to make a long-duration spaceflight: Shannon Lucid (March to September 1996, Mir NASA-1) [92]
Emily Calandrelli has issued a response to the “small men on the internet” who belittled and sexualized her after she became the 100th woman to go to space. The female astronaut and MIT ...
During the flight, Harris became the first African-American to walk in space, while fellow astronaut Michael Foale became the first British-born spacewalker. [7] (It was also on this flight that Eileen Collins became the first female Shuttle pilot.) On this mission, Harris logged 198 hours, 29 minutes in space, completed 129 orbits, and ...