Mae Jemison, First African American Woman in Space

梅·杰米森(Mae Jemison)是一名工程师、医生和前NASA宇航员。在这张图片中，她于1998年在奋进号航天飞机执行STS-47任务中看到了船尾的飞行甲板端口。她是第一位进入太空的非裔美国女性。

杰米森于1987年6月被选为宇航员。在她的第一次飞行中，她是STS-47空间飞行器-J的科学任务专家。这次任务是美日之间的合作项目，包括44个生命科学和材料加工实验。杰米森是这次飞行任务中骨骼细胞研究实验的联合研究员。在完成第一次太空飞行时，杰米森在太空中飞行了190小时30分23秒。

Mae Jemison is an engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut. In this image, she looks out the aft flight deck ports on Space Shuttle Endeavour’s STS-47 mission in 1998. She was the first African American woman in space.

Jemison was selected for the astronaut program in June 1987. On her first flight, she was the science mission specialist on STS-47 Spacelab-J. The mission, which was a cooperative one between the U.S. and Japan, included 44 life science and materials processing experiments. Jemison was a co-investigator on the bone cell research experiment flown on the mission. In completing her first space flight, Jemison logged 190 hours, 30 minutes, 23 seconds in space.

Image Credit: NASA