African-American Dr. Mae C. Jemison speaks 3 languages (Russian, Swahili, Japanese) and is an American physician and NASA astronaut.
She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
She is a dancer, and holds nine honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters, and the humanities. In addition to this she has also choreographed and produced several shows of modern jazz and African dance.
In 1993 Jemison founded her own company, the Jemison Group that researches, markets, and develops science and technology for daily life; and the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence, named in honor of her mother. One of the projects of Jemison’s foundation is The Earth We Share (TEWS), an international science camp where students, ages 12 to 16, work to solve current global problems.
In 1999, Jemison founded BioSentient Corp and has been working to develop a portable device that allows mobile monitoring of the involuntary nervous system. BioSentient has obtained the license to commercialize NASA’s space-age technology known as Autogenic Feedback Training Exercise (AFTE), a patented technique that uses biofeedback and autogenic therapy to allow patients to monitor and control their physiology as a possible treatment for anxiety and stress-related disorders. BioSentient is examining AFTE as a treatment for anxiety, nausea, migraine and tension headaches, chronic pain, hypertension and hypotension, and stress-related disorders.
In 2012, Jemison made the winning bid for the DARPA 100 Year Starship project through the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence. The Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence was awarded a $500,000 grant for further work. The new organization maintained the organizational name 100 Year Starship. Jemison is the current principal of the 100 Year Starship.
She was the first real astronaut ever to appear on Star Trek as Lieutenant Palmer in the episode “Second Chances”
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