Mae Jemison Research Paper

Mae Carol Jemison or better known as Mae C. Jemison was an American engineer, physician, and a NASA astronaut. She became known as the first African-American woman to travel in space. Mae was born on October 17 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. When she was around three years old, her parents, Charlie and Dorothy Jemison, move to Chicago in order to provide her and her siblings a better education. During her high school years she was convinced to pursue engineering. She blossomed in engineering and graduated at age sixteen in 1973. The following year she went to Stanford University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical engineering in 1977. She later went to Cornell University’s Medical College and began to study in Cuba, Kenya,