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Who is me?
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Carol Jemison May.
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Carol Jemison is an American engineer physician in a NASA
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astronaut. She is known for becoming the first African American
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woman to travel to space early life.
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Many Carol Jemison was born on October 17 1956 in
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Decatur, Alabama.
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She is the youngest, and her family has one older
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brother and sister.
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When Jefferson was three years old, her family decided to
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move to Chicago.
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This is where Jefferson attended school at Desmond Elementary.
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This is not only where she had gone to school,
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but where she discovered her interest in science and astronomy.
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When Jefferson had free time, she would go to a
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school library and read about science.
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But mostly she would read about astronomy education.
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Jamison had graduated from high school and Morgan Park High
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School in 1973.
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Then Jefferson had attended Stanford University in California, studied chemical
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engineering and graduated in 1977.
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After graduating from university, Jemison went to Cornell Medical College
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and received her medical degree accomplishments.
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On September 12 1992 Jamison had became the first African
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American woman in space, a recognition of her accomplishments, Jamison
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has received many awards in 1985 Gemstone became the first
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African American woman to be a minute into NASA's training
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program. In 1987 Jemison became the first African American woman
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in NASA in 1988.
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May was awarded the Essence Science and Technology Award in
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1992 May receive the Ebony Black Achievement Awards and, lastly,
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in 1990 Dream may receive the Montgomery Fellowship from Dartmouth
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College, followed by a school named after her in her
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honor, Conclusion Medical.
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Jemison went through a lot of hard work so she
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could go to space and make her dreams come true.
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She was the first African American woman to go into
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space, and she has inspired many women to go to
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space and learn about it.