Mae Jemison

CTL-E-5716 · Person · other · 1956–present

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Combined Graph record U-06991 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5716.

Mae Jemison, born Mae Carol Jemison on October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama, is an American physician, engineer, and former NASA astronaut raised in Chicago. She moved to Chicago at age three, graduated from Morgan Park High School in 1973, and entered Stanford University at sixteen, earning degrees in chemical engineering and in African and African-American studies in 1977. She took her medical degree at Cornell in 1981 and served as a Peace Corps medical officer in Liberia and Sierra Leone from 1983 to 1985. Selected to NASA's astronaut Group 12 in 1987, she flew as a mission specialist on STS-47 Spacelab-J aboard Endeavour from September 12 to 20, 1992 — the first African American woman in space, logging 190 hours 30 minutes, 126 orbits, and 44 experiments. Jemison left NASA in 1993, founded The Jemison Group, launched The Earth We Share science camp in 1994, appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1993, and leads the 100 Year Starship initiative; she is inducted in both the National Women's Hall of Fame and the International Space Hall of Fame.

The record

• Also known as: Mae Carol Jemison

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Fill 500 Lists Wave 4, Tier 1 — 747 Program). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Mae Jemison entity in the live graph at 3,409 entities (exact/normalized/alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5716 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Fill 500 Comedians gap #22 — a physician-astronaut on the mixed civic list, stated openly. Vital status: LIVING — verified by her continuing public and institutional work (100 Year Starship) and no death report in any source consulted. Degree rule satisfied for both alumnus edges: Stanford degrees (1977) and Cornell MD (1981) are documented degrees, not attendance. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): STS-47, September 12–20, 1992 — 190 hours 30 minutes in space, 126 orbits, 44 experiments — Wikipedia and Space.com, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate named in the packet — her NASA portrait is a federal work whose file page was not read in this pass, so PHOTO-001 holds the slot rather than presuming the license); chart FILLED; video HELD; audio HELD. Blocked edges documented in the packet: Peace Corps (no graph entity). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Persons receive no maps (media-layer rule carried from the CULTGRAPH packets).) | visual_assets = HELD: No Commons file page could be read at file-page level in this pass, so the slot is HELD rather than cleared on | chart = FILLED (Built only from this record's own sourced, dated facts; data table printed in the packet.) | video = HELD (No CTL Short for this subject — checked against the CTL Shorts Link Map catalog (2026-10-15) by full name and ) | audio = HELD (No matching-entity audio with a verified rights basis located in this pass (no CTL-owned audio; third-party st)

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• NASA — affiliated with
  Jemison was a NASA astronaut (Group 12, 1987) and flew STS-47 aboard Endeavour in 1992 before leaving the agency in 1993.

Referenced by

• Cornell University — has alumnus → this record
• Stanford University — has alumnus → this record

Sources

• Wikipedia, “Mae Jemison” — born Mae Carol Jemison, October 17, 1956, Decatur, Alabama; raised in Chicago from age three; Morgan Park High School 1973; Stanford degrees 1977; MD Cornell 1981; Peace Corps 1983–85; NASA Group 12, 1987; STS-47, September 12–20, 1992 (190h 30m, 126 orbits, 44 experiments); Jemison Group; Earth We Share 1994; 100 Year Starship; hall-of-fame inductions — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison (build store)
• African American Registry, “Mae Jemison” — Chicago upbringing and career corroboration, accessed 2026-10-16 (build store)
• Space.com, Mae Jemison biography — STS-47 mission details and first-African-American-woman-in-space corroboration, accessed 2026-10-16 (build store)
• New Scientist, Mae Jemison profile — post-NASA career and 100 Year Starship corroboration, accessed 2026-10-16 (build store)

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