Mae C. Jemison

In 1944, singer Barry White was born.

And in 1992, Mae Jemison became the first black woman in space.

That's all for today.

Come back tomorrow to learn a little bit more about the world around you.

I just-

And, and then the f- and then, uh, Dr. Mae Jemison, who becomes the first, you know, Black woman in space-

Yes

... says one of the reasons she becomes an astronaut-

Underplaying it.

Well, actually, it was Mae Jemison, the first African American astronaut.

What?

And I'm like, "Honey, you need to say, 'I'm the first African American astronaut, and I'm gonna take this company to the moon,' "

But I also I think for me growing up, my parents were really good about showing me all different types of explorers.

Like Mae Jemison was like I had a poster of her on my wall and wanted to be an astronaut when I was seven years old because of her.

you know, Jane Goodall, obviously, and, you know, just different people that Sylvia Earle, like all those different, you know, women, I think just really kind of shaped what I was going to do and what I was interested in.

So for me, I have a wide opening and just view of what an explorer is, because I think that just like EC50, it's about finding people that are doing different things and sort of expanding the definition of what explorer is.

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space? B.

Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer? C, Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space, or D, Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who helped send astronauts to space? All right, tenors, did you guess it? The answer and the telescope's full name is B, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Roman was NASA's first chief astronomer, and this new space telescope will capture incredible views of the universe and even help scientists explore some of its biggest mysteries, from planets beyond our solar system to studying dark matter and dark energy and even more.

I can't wait to see what cosmic mysteries unfold during this school year.