“I didn’t even think about whether I’d be the first African-American woman in space… I just wanted to go into space,” Dr. Mae Jemison
Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, is one of those rare individuals who excels at everything she does. Jemison was born in Decatur, Ala., in 1956. She was raised on the southside of Chicago. Her father, Charlie, was a maintenance worker, and her mother, Dorothy, was a schoolteacher. MORE
