Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African-American female astronaut. She flew into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, becoming the first African-American woman to travel to space.
NASA accepted its first group of female astronaut candidates in 1978 as part of the Astronaut Group 8 selection. This group included the first six women selected to become astronauts.
Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut to join NASA. She flew into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992, becoming the first African American woman to travel to space.
Roberta Bondar (born December 4, 1945 in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario) is a Canadian, a former astronaut and neurologist who flew aboard the Space Shuttle on January 22-30, 1992. Canada's first male astronaut was Canadian Navy captain Marc Garneau, who flew aboard the Space Shuttle in 1984.
The female astronaut who was killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in 2003 was named Kalpana Chawla. She was a mission specialist on the STS-107 mission.
Mae Jamison was the first black female astronaut, and she is still alive. She was born in 1956.
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