We talked to retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham, the third Black woman to ever go into space, about her inspiring journey.

NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women and people of ...

No, you can’t. But you can have a lot more—and do a lot more—than you think. Jemison, who holds degrees in engineering and medicine, went to space on the Endeavour in 1992. Back to Firsts ...

For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White Americans, while many of the inspiring ...

From the time Mae Jemison was a little girl, she was convinced that she would go to space. No one could tell her otherwise. She was sure that space travel would be as common as air travel by the ...

Mae Jemison is a physician, engineer, educator, entrepreneur, and the first woman of color in the world to go into space - she was a NASA astronaut for six years. Currently, Mae devotes much of ...

One of the crew, Mission Specialist Four Mae Jemison, was making history. As the rockets fired against the Florida launch pad, Jemison was on her way to becoming the first woman of colour and ...

Mae Jemison is a physician, engineer, educator, entrepreneur and the first woman of color in the world to go into space - she was a NASA astronaut for six years. Currently Mae devotes much of her ...

That’s because the Folklife Festival area of Expo was in the midst of Harvest Week, with “tugs of war, horseshoe pitching ...

Hoffman (50 days), Mae Jemison (eight days), Leland Melvin (23 days), Mike Massimino (23 days), Jerry Linenger (143 days), ...

Being the first to do anything in this world, is a trailblazing and pioneering act. As the first African American woman to travel to space, Mae Jemison broke boundaries, paved paths, and served as ...