What contributions did Mae jemison make to society?

Answer 1

Mae Jemison is best known for her awesome accomplishment which was being the first African American female to launch into space and she also is best known for helping students understand how to keep the earth clean and safe by creating the Earth we share program Jemison has done a lot to not only help adults but to help Children too!

Answer 2

Here are some of the honors and awards that Dr. Mae Jemison has received:

• International Space Hall of Fame inductee (2004)
• National Medical Association Hall of Fame
• Honorary doctorates at: Princeton University (2000), Wilson College (2005), Dartmouth College (2006)
• Selected as one of the nation's top seven women leaders in a poll conducted by the White House Project (1999)
• People Magazine's "World's 50 Most Beautiful People" (1993)
• Ebony's 50 Most Influential Women (1993)
• Turner Trumpet Award (1993)
• Kilby Science Award (1993)
• Induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame (1993)
• Johnson Publications Black Achievement Trailblazers Award (1992)
• McCall's 10 Outstanding Women for the '90s (1991)

Honors and RecognitionIn recognition of her accomplishments, Jemison received several honorary doctorates, the 1988 Essence Science and Technology Award, the Ebony Black Achievement Award in 1992, and a Montgomery Fellowship from Dartmouth College in 1993, and was named Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year in 1990. Also in 1992, an alternative public school in Detroit, Michigan - the Mae C. Jemison Academy - was named after her. Jemison is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and served on the Board of Directors of the World Sickle Cell Foundation from 1990 to 1992. She is also an advisory committee member of the American Express Geography Competition and an honorary board member of the Center for the Prevention of Childhood Malnutrition.

After leaving the astronaut corps in March 1993, Jemison accepted a teaching fellowship at Dartmouth. She also established the Jemison Group, a company that seeks to research, develop, and market advanced technologies.

Answer 3

she said that arican American womens could go up to space like she set a example for them

Answer 4

Mae Jemison's accomplishments include being one of very few people that have been accepted into NASA and she was the first African American female to travel in space.

Answer 5

getting accepted into NASA'S astronaut program!!

Answer 6

Dr. Mae Jemison's claim to fame is that she was the first African-American woman to fly into space aboard the Shuttle.

Answer 7

Mae Jemison's accomplishment was becoming the first black woman to go to space

Answer 8

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