Photos: Astronaut Mae Jemison through the years

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Mae Jemison American engineer and astronaut Mae Jemison works in zero gravity in the centre aisle of the Spacelab Japan (SLJ) science module aboard OV-105, the Space Shuttle Endeavour, during NASA's STS-47 mission, 20th September 1992. Jemison is a Mission Specialist (MS) on the flight, and is the first Black woman to travel into space. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images) (Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

Mae Jemison Official portrait of the crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-47 (from left, front) American NASA astronaut Jerome Apt and American NASA astronaut Curtis L Brown, Jr (both holding launch and entry helmets), (from left, rear) American NASA astronaut Jan Davis, American NASA astronaut Mark C Lee, American NASA astronaut Robert L Gibson, American NASA astronaut Mae C Jemison, and Japanese NASDA astronaut Mamoru Mohri pose (wearing launch and entry suits) with the flags of the United States and Japan in the background, at Johnson Space Space Center in Houston, Texas, June 1992. (Photo by Robert G Markowitz/Johnson Space Center/NASA/Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

Mae Jemison NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 12: (L-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; cosmologist Stephen Hawking, Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, University of Cambridge; Freeman Dyson, Emeritus Professor, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study; Mae Jemison, Nasa Astronaut, Principal 100 Year Starship Foundation; Peter Worden, Chairman, Breaktrough Prize Foundation, Former NASA Director; Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University; and Philip Lubin, UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor attends the New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage) (Gary Gershoff/WireImage)

Mae Jemison AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 11: (L-R) Benjamin Palmer of The Barbarian Group, Dr. Mae Jemison, astronaut, doctor and founder of The Jemison Group, Dr. Jill Tarter and LeVar Burton, founder of RRKidz Inc. speak onstage at 100 Year Starship: Interstellar Travel & Beyond during the 2013 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Austin Convention Center on March 11, 2013 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Rita Quinn/Getty Images for SXSW) (Rita Quinn)

Mae Jemison American NASA astronaut Mae Jemison conducts a Fluid Therapy System (FTS) experiment procedure, injecting a fluid into a mannequin's hand during research in the Spacelab Japan (SLJ) science module aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour during shuttle mission STS-47, 20th September 1992. FTS will examine the effect of low gravity on the administration of intravenous (IV) fluids in space, and since gravity assists in the delivery and flow of IV fluids on Earth, researchers want to determine what problems the absence of gravity would cause if an IV had to be administrated to an astronaut in space; American NASA astronaut Mark C Lee is partially visible at lower right. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

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