Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the first black women to travel to space. Mae C. Jemison became the first African American women to be admitted into the ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...

FORT SMITH -- The first African-American woman to go to outer space, Mae Jemison, said she ventured beyond the earth because she wanted to. Jemison visited the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith ...

A Monday morning interview with former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison on CBS News was derailed when network host Vladimir Duthiers used the word “mankind” ahead of a historic all-female Blue Origin flight ...