Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first African-American woman astronaut to travel to space, has always pushed the boundaries of what some people thought possible for her. In her book, “Find Where the Wind Goes ...

Dr. Mae C. Jemison is currently leading 100 Year Starship (100YSS), an initiative seed funded by DOD’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to assure the capability for human interstellar ...

Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first African American female astronaut, will give a lecture at the Learning Clinics in Camarillo on Aug. 23. Jemison, a physician and engineer, was a crew member of a 1992 ...

Interstellar travel — the movement of humans between stars — is likely the next frontier in space exploration, said Dr. Mae Jemison, the first black woman to travel into space. But the journey, she ...

Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to become an astronaut. An engineer and physician, she was selected from among 15 finalists out two thousand applicants to be an astronaut. In 1992 she ...

Sept. 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1609, Henry Hudson discovered what is now known as the Hudson River. In 1940, near Montignac, France, the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings, believed to ...

Mae C. Jemison is a pioneer in more ways than one. In 1992, as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, Jemison, the first Black female astronaut, also became the first Black woman in ...

The University of Arizona will host its 155th commencement on May 10. This year’s keynote speaker, Dr. Mae C. Jemison, is a former NASA astronaut who made history by being the first woman of color in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Mae C. Jemison, astronaut, physician, engineer and entrepreneur, will deliver the keynote address at the 27th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event at the University at ...

Becoming an astronaut is hard enough, but one woman overcame obstacles to become the first African American woman in space. Born in the 1950s, Jemison would let nothing stop her from becoming one of ...