The team made 127 orbits around the Earth and returned to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on September 20, 1992.

This voyage made Jemison the first African American woman in space. The Endeavour saw a total of 25 missions, 173 crew, 4,671 orbits, and 122,883,151 miles before its last mission ended on June 1, 2011.< /br> < /br> This Hobby.

Mae Jemison on Teaching Arts and Sciences Together (TED talk) On SeptemJemison and six other astronauts went into space on the space shuttle Endeavor.You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.' – At the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, November 2009 'Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out. 'The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.' – Ebony Magazine, October 1987 The project works to make human space travel beyond the solar system a reality within the next century - but in a way that includes and benefits as many people on Earth as possible. She has also taken over leadership of the 100-Year Starship program established by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. She is a strong advocate for science and established an international science camp for high school students. She also founded her own company, the Jemison Group, which seeks to encourage a love of science in students and bring advanced technology to schools around the world. She went on to teach at Dartmouth College. Over the course of her only space voyage, Jemison logged 190 hours, 30 minutes, and 23 seconds in space. The shuttle landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. A mission specialist, Jemison was a co-investigator of two bone cell research experiments, one of 43 scientific investigations that were done on mission STS-47. 12, 1992, Mae Jemison became the first African American woman in space when the space shuttle Endeavour carried her and six other astronauts on 126 orbits around the Earth.

Deaths from space shuttle endeavor