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2/6/2009 Mae Jemison __ The title of my book is Mae Jemison and the author of my book is Gail Sakurai. Mae wanted to be a scientist when she grew up. Mae parents put up with all kinds of stuff, like science projects, dance classes, and art lessons. They encouragedme to do it and they would find the money, time and energy to help me to get involved. pther adults were not as encouraging as her parents. When Mae told her kindergarten teacher that she wanted to be a scientist. Mae loved to work on shool science projects. She spent many hours at the puplic lidrary reading books anout science and space.
 * //__Lindsey Borge

On summer nights she liked to lie outside look up at the stars and dream of traveling in space. Mae was fascinated by the real life space flights and moon landings that she watched on televisions. Mae Jemison knew that she wanted to be an astronaut. Although all astronaut at the time were white and male Mae wasn't discouraged. Scienc and space were not young Mae's only interests. She also loved to dance. Mae started taking lessons in jazz and African dance at the age nine. By the time she was in high school Mae was an accomplished dancer and she frequently performed on stage.

The characteristics that made this person important is that in 1973 Mae graduated from Chicago's Morgan Park High School where she was an honor roll student and excelled in science and math. That fall Mae enteredStanford Universityin California. At Stanford she specialized in African and Afro American studiesand chemical engineering. Mae continued her dancing and choreography she also became involved with student organizationsand she was elected president of the Black Student Union. After receving her Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford Mae enrooled at Cornell University Medical College in New York. She had decided to become a doctor. Medical school was demanding but Mae still found time to participatein student organizations.

She served as president of both the Cornell Medical Student Executive Council and the Cornell chapter of the National Student Medical Association. Mae traveled to several countries as part of her medical training. She studied medicine in Cuda she helped provide basic medical care for people in rural Kenya and at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand. Mae received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Cornell University in 1981. Like all new doctors she served an internship at the Los Angeles County University of southern California Medical Center. Then she started working as a doctor in Los Angeles. Although she had settled into a career as a doctor mae wasn't finished traveling yet. She remembered the trips she had taken during medical school and she still wanted to help people in other parts of the world.

The part I admire is that she that Mae had not forgotten her dream of traveling in space. Now that she had the necessary education and experience Mae decided to try and become an astronaut. She applied to the National Aeronautics and space Administration which is responsible for U.S. space exploration. After undergoing background checks physical exams, medical tests, and interviewsDr. Mae Jemison was accepted into the astronaut program in june 1987. She was one of only fifteen peopel chosen from nearly two tousand qualified applicantsMae didn't let success go to her head. I'm very aware of the fact that I'm not the first African American woman who had the skills, the talent, the desirew to be an astronaut.

Yes I think this book gives an honest account of my person becaues she is now a astronaut and went to the space shuttle Endeavour. Thundered into the morning sky above Kennedy Space Center. Higher and higher it soared over the Altantic Ocean. A few minutes later Endeavour was in orbit around the Earth. Aboard the spacecraft astronaut Mae Jemison could feel her heart pounding with excitement. A wide happy grin split her face. She had just made histroy she was the first African American woman in space. The date was September 12,1992. But Mae wasn't thinking anout dates in history books. Her thoughts were if the wonder and adventure of space travel. I'm closer to the stars somewhere.//**

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