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Mae C. Jemison was born on October 17 ,1956 to Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Green. Mae was born in Decatur, Alabama, but she prefers Chicago, Illinois to be her hometown. When Mae was three years old her family moved to Illinois for a better education. Mae C. Jemison has a lot of interests. Her first interest is languages. Mae can speak Russian, Japanese, Swahili, and English fluently. Mae collects African art and likes to dance. She took dancing at the age of nine. She took African dancing, ballet, modern dancing, jazz, and even Japanese dancing! She wanted to become a professional dancer. Mae C. Jemison had a lot of education throughout her life. She graduated from Morgan Park High school in 1973 at the age of sixteen. Later that year she entered Stanford University on a scholarship. She graduated Stanford University in 1977 and received a B.S. in chemical engineering. She also received a doctorate degree in medicine from Cornell University in New York.  She later interned at Los Angeles county USC Medical center. The USC Medical center is a public teaching hospital. After she was an intern at USC she worked as a general practitioner at Ross Loos Medical group. Ross Loos is a prepaid health service plan and a hospital. Mae worked at Ross Loos form July 1982-December 1982. In 1983 Mae C. Jemison joined the Peace Corps. She was a Peace corps officer and served in Liberia and Sierra Leone. She had to supervise the pharmacy, laboratory, medical staff, and provide health care. She left the Peace Corps in 1985. When Mae went back to the U.S. she participated in research projects for Hepatitis B vaccine and rabies with the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Later in 1985 she applied for NASA's training program. Due to the Challenger disaster in January 1986 the selection was delayed. Mae reapplied in 1986 and she was one of fifteen people to be chosen out of about two thousand people. When she was chosen on June 4,1987 she became the first African-American woman who was chosen into the astronaut training program. In September 1992 Mae C. Jemison was the first African-American woman in space. Mae was a crew member on the space shuttle Endeavor. She was a mission specialist on STS-47 space lab -J. STS-47 was a mission between the U.S and Japan. The mission lasted 8 days and was completed with 127 orbits around the Earth. Mae C. Jemison was in space for 190 hours, 30 minutes, and 23 seconds in space. Mae left NASA in 1993. Now Mae works at her company The Jemison Group. The Jemison Group is a company that creates new technology, especially technology that helps developing countries. She also lives in Houston, Texas with her cats Sneeze and Little Mama. |