Becoming an astronaut is hard enough, but one woman overcame obstacles to become the first African American woman in space.
She first studied medicine before starting a career at NASAEarly life accomplishments
She worked hard and graduated from high school when she was just 16. At that early age, she traveled across the country to California to attend Stanford University. Her talents also didn’t stop in science. Jemison is fluent in Japanese, Russian and Swahili. She used this and her medical studies to her advantage and joined the Peace Corps in 1983 to help people in Africa for two years.After the Peace Corps, Jemison opened her own private practice as a doctor, but not too long after, she decided she wanted to go to space, something she had wanted to accomplish for a long time.
In Sept. 1992, she joined six other astronauts on the Endeavor for eight days, making her the first African American woman in space. On her mission, she made 127 orbits around the Earth.Jemison left NASA the year after she went to space and accomplished many more things.
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