Mae Jemison: first black female astronaut

Mae Jemison is a physician who volunteered with the Peace Corps and was the first female African American astronaut. She was also the first black woman to go into space. After her 1992 expedition on the Endeavor shuttle, she left NASA and founded the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence, which sponsors science camps for kids, as well as companies involved in scientific and technological research. Jemison is currently a professor at Cornell University.