NASA just commemorated the former astronaut Mae Jemison, the first African-American who had toured space in the year 1992. September 13 marked the 30th anniversary of Jemis legendary spaceflight, which she accomplished as part of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Interestingly, as part of the STS-47 mission, the crew included the first Japanese astronaut as well as the first married couple aboard the Shuttle, apart from the first African American woman.
There have been a lot of honors in appreciation of Jemison in areas other than computer programming, printed wiring board materials, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, computer magnetic disc production, and reproductive biology during her NASA years.
NASA says that it was a cooperative mission between the US and Japan that included 44 life science and materials processing experiments.
