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There have been a lot of astronauts that were American heroes, but the first African American female astronaut was Mae Jemison. Mae Jemison was the first African American female to be admitted into the N.A.S.A. administration company as an astronaut. Surprisingly enough, Mae Jemison didn't always want to be an astronaut when she was younger; she wanted to be a scientist. Also, she went though a lot of complex training to get where she is today. Mae Jemison went through a lot of hard schooling; her first mission of space travel was a complete success!

Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to go in space. Mae Jemison had to go thought very involved training to get ready for the most magnificent voyage of her life, into space. She has a degree in chemical engineering, doctorate in medicine, and several years of experience as a medical doctor. Even though with all that under her belt it was very complicated to get into N.A.S.A., but she did. N.A.S.A. help her very much with all the training that she went though and what the knowledge that she learned from that experience.

Mae Jemison had a very interesting childhood. Mae had loving parents named Dorothy (mom) and Charlie (dad) and they always said, "Look it up." Mae was born October 17, 1956 and she thinks that she was born in Chicago, Illinois, but she was really born in Decatur, Alabama. She had a bother named Ricky and a sister named Ada Sue. She like activities such as dace and theater and she could speak Japan and African. When she was in 8th grade she was suppose to go in 7th and she could do 12th grade work. Also, she went to a lot of schools. Mae Jemison moved on August 1987 to Houston, Texas to begin the one-year training at Johnson Space Center. The training you needed 60 hours per week with physical and mental training. The basic science and technical courses were oceanography, geology, mathematics, astronomy, physics, meteorology, and guidance and navigation. The

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