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Mae Jemison

Mae Jemison

American Astronaut

Born: Oct 17, 1956

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Related authors: Alan Shepard Buzz Aldrin Christa McAuliffe Ellen Ochoa Jim Lovell John Glenn Neil Armstrong Sally Ride

When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance. Mae Jemison

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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms? Mae Jemison

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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination. Mae Jemison

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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things. Mae Jemison

Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background. Mae Jemison

Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us. Mae Jemison

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