Growing up, Mae Jemison always just assumed she would go to space one day. After all, the United States had just put people on the moon, so wouldn't everyone go eventually? She may not have guessed right about that, but she did end up in space, as the first African-American woman to become a NASA astronaut. Learn more in this week's episode of She the People.

Hosts: Heather Linder & Billy Puckett

Producer & Music Composition: Tim Corpus (timcorpus.com)

Sources: 

https://www.space.com/17169-mae-jemison-biography.html

https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/jemison-mc.html

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/22/516695456/after-making-history-in-space-mae-jemison-works-to-prime-future-scientists

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/mae-jemison-on-forging-your-dreams-dancing-and-saving-the-earth/2012/03/21/gIQAbB3IcS_blog.html?utm_term=.2265bbbbf9f8

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/business/executive-life-the-boss-what-was-space-like.html