Friday, October 17, 2014

Happy Birthday Mae Carol Jemison-A.A Astrounaut



Tony Brown - WDAS FM Quiet Storm Host
 

Happy Birthday to physician and NASA astronaut Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956). She became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. After her medical education and a brief general practice, Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985 to 1987. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to form a company researching the application of technology to daily life. She has appeared on television several times, including as an actor in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is a dancer, and holds nine honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters, and the humanities.


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