She goes on to say, “I followed the Gemini, the Mercury, and the Apollo programs, I had books about the, I always assumed I would go into space” (2). Therefore, Jemison began taking graduate engineering classes and applied to NASA for admission of the astronaut program. In 1987, Jemison and fifteen astronaut candidates were accepted to the NASA program; and she completed her training in 1988 (Jemison 2). Aboard the shuttle, Endeavor, in 1992, Jemison was the mission specialist on flight, and at the age of thirty- six, Dr. Mae C. Jemison became the first African American woman to travel in to space. In March 1993, Jemison founded the Jemison Group Inc., her private company that aims to “research, develop, and implement advanced technologies suited to the social, political, cultural, and economic context of the individual, especially for the developing world” (Jemison 2). One group project her team has conducted is a satellite based telecommunications system to improve health in West Africa; and Jemison taught environmental studies at Dartmouth College from 1995 to 2002 and since 2015 she is a professor at Cornell University (Jemison
She goes on to say, “I followed the Gemini, the Mercury, and the Apollo programs, I had books about the, I always assumed I would go into space” (2). Therefore, Jemison began taking graduate engineering classes and applied to NASA for admission of the astronaut program. In 1987, Jemison and fifteen astronaut candidates were accepted to the NASA program; and she completed her training in 1988 (Jemison 2). Aboard the shuttle, Endeavor, in 1992, Jemison was the mission specialist on flight, and at the age of thirty- six, Dr. Mae C. Jemison became the first African American woman to travel in to space. In March 1993, Jemison founded the Jemison Group Inc., her private company that aims to “research, develop, and implement advanced technologies suited to the social, political, cultural, and economic context of the individual, especially for the developing world” (Jemison 2). One group project her team has conducted is a satellite based telecommunications system to improve health in West Africa; and Jemison taught environmental studies at Dartmouth College from 1995 to 2002 and since 2015 she is a professor at Cornell University (Jemison