Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first African-American woman astronaut to travel to space, has always pushed the boundaries of what some people thought possible for her. In her book, “Find Where the ...

Becoming an astronaut is hard enough, but one woman overcame obstacles to become the first African American woman in space. Born in the 1950s, Jemison would let nothing stop her from becoming one ...

April 3 (Reuters) - NASA on Monday named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned ... He will be the first Black astronaut ever to be sent on a lunar mission.

On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women and people of color were never selected to go to space.

He has logged over 688 hours in space. Dr. Mae C. Jemison became a NASA astronaut in 1987. She is the first African American woman to travel into space. Jemison received a scholarship from ...

Alabama native and NASA astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison made history ... bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and African and African-American studies, she attended Cornell Medical School.

NASA on Monday named the four astronauts who will fly around the moon late next year, including the first woman and the first African American assigned to a lunar mission. The first moon crew in ...

Tripadvisor has listed its first review of space, written by Dr. Sian “Leo” Proctor, an astronaut and trailblazer. Dr. Procter was the first African American woman to pilot a spaceship ...