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When the space shuttle endeavour blasted off on its second mission it carried the first african american woman into space.
First black woman in space. But mae jemison is more than an astronaut shes also a physician a. Mae jemison was the first african ameican woman in space. On september 12 1992 jemison along with six other astronauts launched into space aboard the endeavour and with that earned the distinction of the first african american woman in space as well. Jemison is the first african american female astronaut.
There were still no black women. Jemison joined nasas astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the sts 47 mission during which she orbited the earth for nearly eight days on september 1220 1992. The first japanese woman in space was chiaki mukai representing the national space development agency of japan nasda. On january 5 2016 nasa announced that epps would become the first african american space station crew member when she launched on her would be first spaceflight in may 2018 as a flight engineer on expedition 56 remaining on board for expedition 57.
In 1987 jemison was one of 15 selected for the prestigious nasa program. Mukai flew on the space shuttle columbia during mission sts 65 in july 1994.
