Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.
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@spocko But not first black person. The first person of African descent to fly into space was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, a Cuban, way back in 1980.
@spocko Basically, the Russians won on both first colored person in space, first woman in space, first Latino in space etc.
Granted, they were doing it for the propaganda value to show that the US space program was racist, sexist, etc....but, you know, it was...
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Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.
But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_JemisonAlso, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2@spocko Perhaps a timely reminder that the first woman in space was 1963, Valentina Tereshkova and she is the only woman to have flown solo in space. She did this at the age of 26.
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Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.
But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_JemisonAlso, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2@spocko BBC news had her on for reactions after the launch (among others). Fraid I had the sound off… interviewer was too annoying.
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Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.
But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_JemisonAlso, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2@spocko And Canadian!
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Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.
But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_JemisonAlso, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2@spocko Typo on her last name: should be Jemison.
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Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.
But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_JemisonAlso, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2 -
@spocko Typo on her last name: should be Jemison.
@chockenberry Thank you! And thank you #Mastodon for having an edit function.
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Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.
But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_JemisonAlso, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2Do you know how the backstage moment with Nichols happened?
That would be a supremely cool casting perk, meeting my heroes and getting to be on the show that inspired so much... Jemison got to live 3 of my dreams and I salute her for it.
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@chockenberry Thank you! And thank you #Mastodon for having an edit function.
@spocko No problem. Glad to see you getting more people know about her and her accomplishments!
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Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.
But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_JemisonAlso, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2The circle was complete when Mae Jemison met Nichelle Nichols because Jemison had been very much inspired by her.
On the shuttle Jemison started each shift with "Hailing frequencies open." A Trekkie to the bone.
Nichols was going to quit Star Trek after the first season but Martin Luther King convinced her to stay. Later Nichols worked with NASA to recruit women and minorities. Thanks to King, she continued to inspire kids like Jemison and then go on to change NASA.
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Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.
But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_JemisonAlso, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2@spocko The game Starfield named a planet after her, the main hub world. https://starfield.fandom.com/wiki/Jemison
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