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Article: Making space for women: for three Black, female astronauts, the sky is the limit.(Joan E. Higginbotham, Mae C. Jemison, Stephanie Wilson )
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- Ebony
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- August 1, 2006
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WHEN astronaut Stephanie Wilson ascends into space this summer as the second African-American female to do so, the world will once again collectively look to the skies, captivated by space exploration.
Wilson's journey on the Space Shuttle Discovery as one of a 7-person crew aboard mission STS-121 comes 14 years after the historic flight of Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to travel into space. Since Dr. Jemison's groundbreaking efforts in aeronautics, Wilson and two other Black female astronauts have proven to be uniquely qualified in the field of space travel and exploration.
The first to follow in Jemison's gravity-defying footsteps ...