Mae Jemison, a former NASA astronaut, physician, educator, and the first woman of color to go into space, will be the keynote speaker for Rochester Institute of Technology’s Academic Convocation on ...

From the time Mae Jemison was a little girl, she was convinced that she would go to space. No one could tell her otherwise. She was sure that space travel would be as common as air travel by the time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On September 12th, 1992, Mae Jemison became the first woman of color to travel to space. Boarded on the Space Shuttle Endeavour, ...

Chatting with C&EN in a hotel room on a chilly February morning in Washington, D.C., Jemison is a formidable woman who exudes a calm competence. At 50, she describes her myriad successes as the sum of ...

As a child, Mae Jemison worried that aliens would get the wrong idea about humanity from looking at the all-white, all-male crews of the earliest space missions. 25 years ago today, she helped set the ...

Jemison talks about the obstacles she faced, as a 16-year-old college student and then a scientist, and gives advice to today's Black Lives Matter activists. Jemison talks about the obstacles she ...

More than three decades after making history aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, Dr. Mae Jemison continues to inspire the next wave of space travelers while championing science and education on Earth.

In 1992, Mae Jemison went into orbit on the space shuttle Endeavour and became the first African-American woman to go to space. Now, 25 years later, Jemison is launching a new initiative called Look ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Mae Jemison, former NASA astronaut, author and entrepreneur, will visit the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith on April 9 to ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- As we celebrate Black history, Dr. Mae Jemison is a first but certainly not a last. Jemison has worn so many hats throughout her career, but she had to overcome many obstacles.

Mae Jemison brought an impressive resume along when she entered astronaut training: Doctor, engineer, Peace Corps medical officer in Sierra Leone and Liberia. "By the time I got to NASA, I’d been ...