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Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17 1956) is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12 1992. After her medical education and a brief general practice Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985 to 1987 when she was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to form a company researching the application of technology to daily life.
