Astronaut Mae Jemison Made History 25 Years Ago Today
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Dr. Mae Jemison
As a child, Mae Jemison worried that aliens would get the wrong idea about humanity from looking at the all-white, all-male crews of the earliest space missions. 25 years ago today, she...Read More »
'Star Trek: Discovery' cast talk legacy, compare crews at New York Comic Con 2017
By: SEAN KEANE
Live long and prosper.
Hundreds of Trekkies packed into The Theater at Madison Square Garden for the “Star Trek: Discovery” panel, moderated by Dr. Mae Jemison, Saturday afternoon.
The panel featured a surprise appearance by actress...Read More »
DR. MAE JEMISON TO LAUNCH LOOK UP AT 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF SPACEFLIGHT CELEBRATION
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DR. MAE JEMISON TO LAUNCH LOOK UP AT 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF SPACEFLIGHT CELEBRATION
New Initiative to Connect and Inspire People Globally over the Year Culminating in a Day...Read More »
INCLUSIVE EVENT MARKS DR. MAE JEMISON’S HISTORIC SPACEFLIGHT
Jemison’s Silver Anniversary Party, 25 Strong! Celebrates Inclusion, Innovation, Science, the Arts and Social Responsibility in Los Angeles Under the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the Samuel Oschin Pavilion
LOS ANGELES, SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 – This September is the 25th...Read More »
A Letter to Your 18-Year-Old Self: Alires Almon
Click here to watch: http://www.9news.com/news/education/a-letter-to-your-18-year-old-self-alires-almon/444267726
...Read More »Jemison: 'Life is best when you live deeply and look up'
Amy McCaig -May 13, 2017
To have a happy and fulfilling life, you need to “live deeply and look up,” according to Dr. Mae Jemison, who addressed graduates at Rice University’s 104th commencement May 13 in the Academic Quad.
A Talk With Dr. Mae Jemison
By: EBONY MARIE CHAPPEL @EbonyTheWriter | Posted: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 6:52 pm
Dr. Mae Jemison has gone to places few women (or even men, for that matter) have gone before — space. In 1992, she became the first Black woman to visit space, and today the physician, engineer...Read More »
NASA Launches the Galaxy’s Most Glorious Space Database
Now you can easily peruse more than 140,000 of the agency’s photos, videos and visualizations
Space is...Read More »
Why Women Weren't Allowed to Be Astronauts
Critics had plenty of reasons for wanting to disqualify women from spaceflight in its early stages—but none of them stuck.
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After Making History In Space, Mae Jemison Works To Prime Future Scientists
Mae Jemison addresses congressional representatives and distinguished guests at Bayer’s Making Science Make Sense 20th anniversary celebration in 2015.
Kevin Wolf/AP Images for Bayer Making Science Make Sense
At...Read More »
Mirrors for My Daughter’s Bookshelf
While fixing my 4-year-old daughter’s bookshelf, I noticed something missing on the glossy covers of her picture books: girls...Read More »
NFL Commissioner, GE Chairman To Kick Off 1st And Future Event At Super Bowl LI
Roger Goodell and Jeff Immelt, partners in the GE-NFL Head Health Initiative, will take part in a discussion on innovation and sports safety to kick off the annual start-up competition
By Texas Medical Center | January 25, 2017
The National Football League (NFL) and the Texas...Read More »
Jemison Shares Stories Connecting Civil Rights and Space
January 25, 2017 | By Stephanie Kulke
Dr. Mae Jemison, who grew up on Chicago’s South Side and rose to become the first woman of color astronaut to fly in space, declared at Northwestern University Monday (Jan. 23) that Americans of all backgrounds should strive...Read More »
Dr. Mae Jemison Reads the Letter Written by John Glenn to Honor Jeff Bezos for Blue Origin at the 2016 Ingenuity Awards
...Read More »The controversial 'EmDrive' - NASA Researchers experiments find it may work. National Geographic article provides good overview"
NASA Team Claims ‘Impossible’ Space Engine Works—Get the Facts
Scientists just published a paper saying that the controversial EmDrive produces thrust, even though that defies known laws of physics.
A prototype of the EmDrive, as seen in a test chamber at a NASA lab
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Mars Is Only A Pitstop: Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space, says colonizing Mars ‘doesn’t push us hard enough’
11/16/16
By: Sidney Fussell
Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space, has an alternative view on the race to get humans on Mars: it isn’t enough.
In October, President Obama penned an op-ed for CNN announcing a partnership between NASA and private companies to start building habitats...Read More »
Dr. Mae Jemison is a genius, offers real advice for kids and adults about STEM
By Yvette Caslin
National Geographic Channel, Academy and Emmy-winning producers Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Michael Rosenberg of Imagine Entertainment; and Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning producer Justin Wilkes and Dave O’Connor of RadicalMedia have joined forces to launch viewers farther into outer space than ever before with the global event series...Read More »
DR. MAE C. JEMISON NAMED IU KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS' POLING CHAIR OF BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT
Article ID: 661063
Released: 20-Sep-2016 8:00 AM EDT
Source Newsroom: Indiana University
Newswise — BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Dr. Mae C. Jemison, astronaut, engineer, entrepreneur, physician and educator, has been named a leader-in-residence at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, serving as its Poling Chair of Business and Government,...Read More »
Breaking News: New Found Goldilocks Habitable Planet Brings 100 Year Starship Mission to the Forefront
One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth
By Kenneth Chang Aug. 24, 2016
An artist’s impression of the planet Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth’s sun.
Credit M. Kornmesser/European Southern Observatory
Another Earth could be circling...Read More »
Dr. Mae Jemison to open Tuskegee University Lyceum Series
8/16/2016
TUSKEGEE, Ala. (August 16, 2016) — Famed astronaut and scientist Dr. Mae Jemison will open Tuskegee University’s 2016 Lyceum Series. Jemison, the first woman of color to go into space, is one of the nation’s premier speakers on issues of health care, social responsibility, technology and...Read More »
Dr. Mae Jemison Cuts Ribbon On Namesake Jemison High School
Dr. Mae Jemison cuts ribbon at ceremony for namesake Dr. Mae Jemison High School, Huntsville, Alabama on Tuesday Aug. 2, 2016. (Bob Gathany/bgathany@AL.com)
By: Bob Gathany
8/2/16
Huntsville city schools honored Dr. Mae Jemison by naming a very beautiful new high school located at 2500 Pulaski Pike in Huntsville after her....Read More »
Humanity Finally Travels to Mars in Ron Howard's New Half-Scifi, Half Documentary TV Series
By: Germain Lussier
7/29/16
In Mars, the Daedalus crew is heading to the Red Planet. Taken in May 2033, they are Astronauts Hana Seung (Jihae), Ben Sawyer (Ben Cotton), Marta Kamen (Anamaria Marinca). Back Row L to R: Astronauts Robert Foucault (Sammi Rotibi), Javier Delgado (Alberto Ammann), Amelie Durand (Clementine Poidatz). Credit:...Read More »
Women of NASA Lego Kit! You Can Make It A Reality! Vote Today!
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Ladies rock outer space!
Women have played critical roles throughout the history of the U.S. space program, a.k.a. NASA or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Yet in many cases, their contributions are unknown or under-appreciated — especially as women have...Read More »
The International Mars Science Foundation and Mars Mission Corporation Proudly Announce Successful Launch of First Human Mission to Mars
Spacecraft Daedalus Projected to Land on Mars in November of This Year;
Crew of Six Astronauts Onboard Will Make First Attempt to Establish Permanent Human Settlement on the Distant Planet
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The following National Geographic Channel press release is about a future successful launch...Read More »
Count Down to Mars Landing
Join Us in the Count Down to Mars Landing!
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[Daily Mail] Stephen Hawking joins futuristic bid to explore outer space
By: Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — With famed physicist Stephen Hawking at his side, an Internet investor announced Tuesday that he’s spending $100 million on a futuristic plan to explore far outside our solar system.
Yuri Milner said the eventual goal is sending hundreds or thousands of tiny spacecraft, each weighing...Read More »
[Space.com] Breakthrough Starshot in Pictures: Laser Sail Nanocraft to See Alpha Centauri
(L to R) Ann Druyan, Producer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cosmos Studios; Zac Manchester, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University; Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Prize and DST Global Founder; Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, University of Cambridge; Freeman Dyson, Emeritus Professor, Princeton Institute...Read More »
[Comic Book Resources] The Line it is Drawn #168 – Real Life Female Heroes as Superheroes
By: Brian Cronin
Welcome to our weekly gallery of amazing art by our great collection of artistic talent, all working from YOUR suggestions!
Go follow Comics Should Be Good on Twitter (if you have Twitter, that is – if you don’t, you can go sign up). Here is our Twitter...Read More »
[Los Angeles Times] Starshot: Russian billionaire and Stephen Hawking want to use lasers to send tiny spacecraft to nearby star
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking is one of the researchers teaming up with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner on a $100-million effort to develop the technology to send spacecraft to the nearest star. (Bryan Bedder / Getty Images)
By: Amina Khan
This is not your granddad’s moonshot. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner...Read More »
Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are launching a $100-million initiative to send 100-million-mile-an-hour bots to Alpha Centauri
By: Lydia Ramsey and Erin Brodwin, UK Business Insider
Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking are teaming up to send 100-million-mile-per-hour bots deep into space.
The $100 million initiative intends to develop light-propelled nanocrafts that will get us to Alpha Centauri, the next closest star system to the Solar System. Keep in...Read More »
[Seeker] The Women Who Took Us To Space
By: Molly Fosco
Long before the days of computers, female scientists and mathematicians played a major role in the U.S. space program.
Many of the scientists and mathematicians who worked on the project that carried the U.S. into space, to the moon, and eventually to Mars, were women.Read More »
[STUDIO 360] Boldly Going Where No TV Prop Has Gone Before
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[Tech Insider] An Astronaut Planning A Mission To A Distant Star Shares 'An Unpleasant Truth I Have To Tell Everyone'
By: Kevin Loria
As a species, we have long looked to the stars. They have provided navigational guidance, spurred our imaginations, and inspired us to explore.
We are explorers who have spread around the world and are now reaching into space — to Mars soon, we hope, and beyond. Some of our...Read More »
[Fast Company] The First Black Female Astronaut On Fear, Audacity, And The Importance of Inclusion
[Photo: NASA via Wikimedia Commons]
June 2nd, 2015
SOURCE: Fast Company
On paper, Mae Jemison’s accomplishments are so varied and groundbreaking, you would never stop to consider that she—like most all of us— isn’t completely fearless.
Jemison studied chemical engineering at Stanford before going to medical school...Read More »
[Huffington Post] This Little-Known Quirk Makes Us Love Astronaut Mae Jemison Even More
By Jacqueline Howard
February 18, 2016
SOURCE: Fast Company
“Hailing frequencies open!”
That’s not only the classic line from “Star Trek” — recited by Lieutenant Uhura, a character played by African-American actress Nichelle Nichols — but it also was repeated by Dr. Mae Jemison, the first black woman to travel in space, at the start of...Read More »
[Auburn University] NASA Astronaut and Alabama Native Jemison to Speak on Importance of Inclusion
By Vicky Santos
February 1, 2016
SOURCE: Auburn University
Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, will deliver the Extraordinary Women Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 4 p.m. at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center.
Jemison’s talk, “On Fear, Audacity, and the Importance of Inclusion,” the sixth in a...Read More »
[Tech Insider] The Biggest Thing Preventing Humans From Interstellar Space tTavel
By Chris Weller
February 17, 2016
SOURCE: Tech Insider
Mae Jemison was 12-years-old when Americans first landed on the moon in 1969. The event inspired her, as it did an entire generation, and she went on to become the first woman of color who went to space, aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992.
But...Read More »
[Fast Company] The First Black Woman In Space Wants To Take Us Beyond Our Solar System
By Jessica Leber
February 16, 2016
SOURCE: Fast Company
Mae Jemison was 12-years-old when Americans first landed on the moon in 1969. The event inspired her, as it did an entire generation, and she went on to become the first woman of color who went to space, aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992.
But...Read More »
[Scientific American] Celebrating My Sheros: Dr. Mae Jemison
By DNLee
March 25, 2012
SOURCE: Scientific American
If you happened to read my Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day post from October 7, 2011, then you may have gleaned that I have this awesome fangirl obsession with THE Dr. Mae Jemison. As a young girl, I remember her being a member of the Space Shuttle...Read More »
[Huffington Post] The Space Age, Race and a Quiet Revolution
By Dr. Mae Jemison
April 30, 2014
SOURCE: Huffington Post
In 1992, the Space Shuttle Endeavour made world history. I was on that flight, it was noted in the news: the first woman of color in space. When the Endeavour left the earth, the face of the space exploration changed.
When I...Read More »