Happy 69th birthday to Doctor and Engineer Mae Jemison! She was the first black woman in space.
She flew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, working on experiments including bone cell research.
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison is a physician and retired astronaut. After her medical education and a brief general practice, Dr. Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985-1987, when she was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to form a company researching the application of technology to daily life.
She has appeared on television several times, including as an actress in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Dr. Jemison is a dancer, and holds 9 honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters, and the humanities.
HONORS & AWARDS:
π1988 Essence Science and Technology Award
π1991 McCall's 10 Outstanding Women for the 90s
π1991 Pumpkin Magazine's (a Japanese Monthly) One of the Women for the Coming New Century
π1992 Johnson Publications Black Achievement Trailblazers Award
π1993 National Women's Hall of Fame
π1993 Ebony magazine 50 Most Influential women
π1993 Kilby Science Award
π1993 Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth
π1993 People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful and sexy People in the World"
π1993 Turner Trumpet Award
π1997 Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Science Medicine and Technology.
π2002 listed among the 100 Greatest African Americans according to Molefi Kete Asante.
π2003 Intrepid Award by the National Organization for girls
π2004 International Space Hall of Fame NASA Space Flight Medal
π2005 The National Audubon Society, Rachel Carson Award
Institutions:
π1992 Mae C. Jemison Science and Space Museum, Wilbur Wright College
π1992 Mae C. Jemison Academy, an alternative public school in Detroit, Michigan
π2001 Mae Jemison School, an elementary public school in Hazel Crest, Illinois
π2007 Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy, a public charter school in Baltimore, Maryland
Doctors honoris causa:
π1991 Doctor of Science, Lincoln College, Pennsylvania
π2000 Doctor of Humanities, Princeton University
π2005 Doctor of Science, Wilson College
π2006 Doctor of Science, Dartmouth College
π2007 Doctor of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
π2007 Doctor of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
π2008 Doctor of Humanities, DePaul University
π2009 Doctor of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU.
Happy birthday to Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel in space, who began her communications to NASA with "Hailing frequencies open"βand guest starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Second Chances."
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I am angry tonight.
Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.
ICE makes this city less safe.
We want them out. Now.
in honor of margaret hamilton, iβm posting this iconic image of her standing next to the printed apollo flight software that she and her team developed that helped take humans to the moon.
rest in peace to an incredible inspiration for women in the space industry.
βWe had to find a way and we did. Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world; there was no choice but to be pioneers.β βMargaret Hamilton
Rest in peace, Margaret. Your trailblazing work leading the development of the on-board flight software for the Apollo spacecraft will forever be remembered. π«‘
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While Star Trek Day (Sept. 8) celebrates the premiere of The Original Series, Star Trek's world premiere was actually September 6βwhen "The Man Trap" aired on CTV in Canada.
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