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  2. Mae Jemison - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of African-American astronauts - Wikipedia

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    First African American female Spacecraft Pilot, as part of Inspiration4. First African American commercial Astronaut. Inspiration4 (September 16, 2021) 17 Michael Strahan November 21, 1971 First African American space tourist Blue Origin NS-19 (December 11, 2021) 18 Jessica Watkins May 14, 1988

  4. List of women astronauts - Wikipedia

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    First female commercial astronaut spaceship pilot [18] [19] First African-American commercial astronaut [20] First African-American woman to pilot a spacecraft [21] Inspiration4 (Sep. 16, 2021) 69 Hayley Arceneaux Dec. 9, 1991 United States: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital employee, bone cancer survivor, who is now a physician assistant

  5. Sian Proctor - Wikipedia

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    Sian Hayley "Leo" Proctor (28 March 1970, Hagåtña, Guam) is an American commercial astronaut, geology professor, artist, author, and science communicator.She became the first female commercial spaceship pilot on the all-civilian Inspiration4 orbital spaceflight, 15 September 2021.

  6. List of space travellers by first flight - Wikipedia

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    Sally Ride, joint 120th person and the first American woman in space Guion Bluford, joint 125th person and the first African American in space Bruce McCandless, joint 133rd person in space and the first to perform an untethered EVA Rakesh Sharma, 139th person and the first Indian in space Anna Lee Fisher, joint 155th person and the first mother ...

  7. Katherine Johnson - Wikipedia

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    She was the first African-American woman to attend graduate school at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. Through WVSC's president, John W. Davis , she became one of three African-American students, [ 16 ] and the only woman, selected to integrate the graduate school after the 1938 United States Supreme Court ruling in ...

  8. Bessie Coleman - Wikipedia

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    Leah Hing, first Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license; Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut in space; she carried a picture of Bessie Coleman with her on her first mission; Military history of African Americans; Azellia White, the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license in Texas

  9. Jeanette Epps - Wikipedia

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    Jeanette Jo Epps (born November 3, 1970) is an American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut.Epps received both her M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, where she was part of the rotor-craft research group and was a NASA GSRP Fellow.