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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.
Mae Jemison October 17, 1956 First African-American woman in space STS-47 (September 12, 1992) [2] 6 Bernard A. Harris Jr. June 26, 1956 First African American to walk in space STS-55 (April 26, 1993) STS-63 (February 3, 1995) [2] 7 Winston E. Scott August 6, 1950 Veteran of three spacewalks STS-72 (January 11, 1996) STS-87 (November 19, 1997 ...
It is named for Mae Jemison, a native of nearby Decatur, Alabama who was the first African-American female astronaut. [ 2 ] The school is built on the same campus as McNair Junior High School, which is named for the late Ronald McNair , the second African-American astronaut in space, who was killed in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger .
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The other died in a car crash two years later at the age of 18. Both left behind baby daughters. "It just kind of keeps them in the family," Griffin told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, part of the ...
His mom, Mary Maxwell Gates, died in 1994, before he became a father; and his dad, William Henry Gates II, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died in 2020, ...
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
It is about a girl, Mae (a nod to African American astronaut Mae Jemison), who, with her family, follows the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing. Reception.