When NASA astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison rocketed into space, she brought a Bundu statue from the Women and Girls Society of West Africa, a pink and green AKA banner, the flag of the Organization of ...

This is how being a dancer makes you a better astronaut Link Copied! Dr. Mae Jemison made history when she became the first woman of color to travel to space. It was her background as a dancer that ...

The sky proves no limit in Lukidis’s encouraging biography of Black female astronaut Mae Jemison (b. 1956). Facing pages use mirroring prose to showcase the figure’s twin loves—science and dance—as ...

Mae C. Jemison is a pioneer in more ways than one. In 1992, as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, Jemison, the first Black female astronaut, also became the first Black woman in ...