# Mae Carol Jemison

- By: NASA
- Date: Taken on 1 July 1992
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: NASA Image and Video Library (file)
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mae_Carol_Jemison.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Mae_Carol_Jemison.jpg/1920px-Mae_Carol_Jemison.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she served as an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.