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Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African-American female astronaut. She flew into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, becoming the first African-American woman to travel to space.
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Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut to join NASA. She flew into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992, becoming the first African American woman to travel to space.
She was the first woman astronaut!
She was the first black woman to go to space.
The first female astronaut was Valentina Tereshkova and she was from the Soviet Union.
Alan sheperd was the first astronaut in space.
She was the first female space shuttle pilot, first female space shuttle commander, and the first pilot to take the shuttle through a 360 degree pitch maneuver
Mae Jamison was the first black female astronaut, and she is still alive. She was born in 1956.
Roberta Bondar (born December 4, 1945 in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario) is a Canadian, a former astronaut and neurologist who flew aboard the Space Shuttle on January 22-30, 1992. Canada's first male astronaut was Canadian Navy captain Marc Garneau, who flew aboard the Space Shuttle in 1984.
Colonel Guion Bluford was the first black astronaut to orbit the earth; this occurred in 1983. The first black female astronaut was Dr. Mae Jemison, in 1992.