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Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut
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American astronaut, doctor and engineer (born 1956)
Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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