I just finished reading a book in class about Mae Jemison. She was born October 17, 1956. She was an African-American female astronaut. In her childhood as she was growing up men were usually the one who were scientist. So when she told her teacher she wanted to be scientist she replied,"don't you mean a nurse".As a child that is very discouraging but that didn't stop Mae from overcoming her dream. She graduated from Morgan Park High School in 1973,received a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering and fulfilled the requirements for a B.A. in African and Afro-American Studies from Stanford University in 1977, and a doctorate degree in medicine from Cornell University in 1981.Dr. Jemison was the science mission specialist on STS-47 Spacelab-J September 12-20, 1992. STS-47 was a cooperative mission between the United States and Japan. The eight-day mission was accomplished in 127 orbits of the Earth, and included 44 Japanese and U.S. life science and materials processing experiments. Mae Jemison was a co-investigator on the bone cell research experiment flown on the mission. The Endeavor and her crew launched from and returned to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In completing her first space flight, Mae Jemison logged 190 hours, 30 minutes, 23 seconds in space.
Mae Jemison left NASA in March 1993.

-Kazeem-