

NASA / Johnson Space Center, photo S92-40463, official STS-47 portrait, 1 July 1992, downscaled from the original · NASA Johnson Space Center photograph S92-40463, 'Official portrait of STS-47 Mission Specialist Mae C. Jemison in LES' (NASA record date 1 July 1992; Commons 'Taken on 1 July 1992'), downloaded from the NASA Image and Video Library original (6204 x 7755 pixels, 5,122,051 bytes), the same size as the Wikimedia Commons file 'Mae Carol Jemison.jpg' (author NASA, tagged public domain as a work solely created by NASA; the Commons file's embedded metadata names Adobe Photoshop CS3, but this file was taken from NASA's own asset server, not from Commons). NASA's Media Usage Guidelines say NASA content is generally not subject to copyright in the United States and that third-party copyrighted material is marked with the holder's name; this record carries only a NASA credit, no third-party credit, and the mission patch visible on the suit is part of the official crew portrait. The guidelines also warn that commercial use of an astronaut's likeness must not imply NASA endorsement and that an identifiable person may have publicity rights; this record is for editorial identification of the subject and the lead should decide whether the product counts as commercial use (the same caveat already applies to other living astronauts in the roster). Downscaled once to 960 x 1200 (never upscaled). · Public Domain (NASA work)
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메이 제미슨
b. 1956
주요 업적 분야
아직 성격 매칭에 포함되지 않았습니다 — 기록된 근거가 성격 모델 전체를 다루기에는 충분하지 않습니다. 이 페이지의 다른 모든 내용은 자유롭게 확인하실 수 있습니다.
핵심 특성
주요 업적
제미슨은 1992년 9월 12일 우주왕복선 엔데버호의 STS-47 임무에 스페이스랩-J의 과학 임무 전문가로 탑승했다. 일본과 공동으로 운영한 이 비행은 약 8일 동안 지구를 127바퀴 돌며 생명과학·재료 가공 실험 44건을 수행했고, 제미슨은 뼈세포 연구 실험의 공동 연구자였다. NASA의 보도자료집은 그를 우주를 비행한 최초의 아프리카계 미국인 여성으로 소개한다.
그는 공학과 의학을 모두 공부해 1977년 스탠퍼드대에서 화학공학 학위를, 1981년 코넬대에서 의학 박사 학위를 받았다. 1983년 1월부터 1985년 6월까지는 시에라리온과 라이베리아를 맡은 평화봉사단 지역 의무관으로 일하며 평화봉사단과 대사관 직원의 의료 체계를 관리했고, 자가 관리 안내서를 쓰고 B형 간염 백신, 주혈흡충증, 광견병 연구에 미국 국립보건원(NIH), 질병통제예방센터(CDC)와 함께 참여했다.
그는 1993년 3월 NASA를 떠났고 이후 기술 컨설팅 회사 제미슨 그룹과 국제 과학 캠프 '디 어스 위 셰어(The Earth We Share)'를 세웠다.
삶의 장면들
스페이스랩-J 임무 초반의 한 블루팀 교대 근무에서 제미슨은 대부분의 시간을 개구리 배아 발생 실험에 썼다. 수정란을 밀폐된 작업대로 옮겨 영상 현미경으로 관찰했고, 마셜 우주비행센터 운영실에서 음성으로 참여한 이 실험의 연구 책임자 케네스 소자는 우주선에 실린 네 마리 가운데 알을 내놓기에 가장 좋은 개구리 두 마리를 고른 제미슨의 선택에 자신과 팀이 동의한다고 말했다. 작업대 문이 걸려 움직이지 않자 그는 이 실험의 탑재체 관리자와 상의했고, 관리자는 제미슨과 얀 데이비스가 낸 해결책을 승인했으며 문은 무사히 풀렸다.
혼자 해결하기보다 지상의 연구자와 동료와 보조를 맞춰 문제를 풀어 간 모습과 일치하지만, 보고서는 결과를 한 문장으로만 기록한다. 협업 성향
임무 초반(1992년 9월 12~17일)의 NASA 상황 보고서에는 제미슨이 스페이스랩-J의 두 연구 분야를 모두 다룬 모습이 기록돼 있다. 재료과학에서는 유리구 안의 금속 필라멘트를 기화시키는 기체 증발 시설 실험과 음파로 광유 방울을 띄우는 액체 방울 시설 실험을 맡았고(결과가 완전히 성공적이지는 않았지만 일본 측 공동 연구자가 그의 노고에 감사를 전했다), 생명과학에서는 개구리에 호르몬을 주사해 배란을 유도하고 알을 수정시킨 뒤 정해진 시기에 고정했으며 교대마다 닭 알을 돌렸다.
공학과 의학에 걸친 배경이 임무의 두 연구 분야에서 모두 쓰인 모습과 일치하지만, 업무 배정은 교대 근무 계획에도 따른 것이다. 분야 횡단성
전환점
의사였던 제미슨은 1985년 NASA 우주비행사 프로그램에 지원했다. 1986년 챌린저호 사고로 선발이 중단되자 다시 지원했고, 1987년 6월 2,000명이 넘는 지원자 가운데 선발된 15명 중 한 명이 되었다. NASA의 약력에 따르면 선발될 당시 그는 일반의로 일하면서 대학원 공학 강의를 듣고 있었다.
새로운 진로를 스스로 찾아 나서고 첫 시도가 사건으로 중단되자 다시 지원한 모습과 일치하지만, 지원 과정에 대한 설명은 주로 박물관의 전기에 의존한다. 선제적 행동력
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- Mae Jemison (Q34091) -- verified live via the Wikidata API (2026-10-16): English label 'Mae Jemison', description 'American doctor and NASA astronaut', born 17 October 1956, no date of death recorded, citizenship United States, Korean label present. Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- NASA Johnson Space Center, 'Biographical Data: Mae C. Jemison (M.D.), NASA Astronaut (Former)', March 1993 -- the agency's official biography: a background in both engineering and medical research, with work in computer programming, printed wiring board materials, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, computer magnetic disc production and reproductive biology; internship and general practice in Los Angeles; Area Peace Corps Medical Officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia from January 1983 to June 1985, managing the health care delivery system for Peace Corps and embassy personnel, developing curriculum and teaching volunteer personal health training, writing self-care manuals, setting public health and safety guidelines for placement and training sites, and taking part in hepatitis B vaccine, schistosomiasis and rabies research with the National Institutes of Health and the CDC; general practice with CIGNA while attending graduate engineering classes until her selection as an astronaut in June 1987; technical assignments in launch support, Shuttle software verification and the Science Support Group; science mission specialist on STS-47 Spacelab-J (12-20 September 1992, 127 orbits, 44 experiments, 190 hours 30 minutes in space) and co-investigator on a bone cell research experiment; left NASA in March 1993; and a list of student-era activities (a health study grant for rural Kenya in 1979, a health and law fair she organised in 1979, work in a Thai refugee camp in 1980). CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE (honouring in tone and compiled from information the astronaut supplied, so used for the achievement cards and for dates and roles only; its personal data, family, hobbies and honours entries were not used). Read in full.
- NASA, 'STS-47 Press Kit' (Space Shuttle Endeavour, Spacelab-J, September 1992; HTML/PDF edition prepared by Richard W. Orloff in 2001) -- the pre-flight press kit: the first NASA mission devoted primarily to Japan, a crew of seven working paired 12-hour Red and Blue Team shifts (Jemison as Mission Specialist 4 on the Blue Team with Jay Apt and Jan Davis), the description of Jemison alongside Jan Davis as first-time space travellers with Jemison identified as the first African American woman to fly in space, the Spacelab-J experiment programme (materials processing and life sciences including frog and chicken-embryo development and bone cell research) and short crew biographies. Official NASA publication, promotional in tone; its notes on other crew members' private lives were not used. Read the mission overview, crew assignments, life-sciences and experiment lists and the Jemison biography; the engineering sections were skimmed.
- NASA Johnson Space Center and Marshall Space Flight Center, 'STS-47 Mission Control Status Reports' and Spacelab-J payload operations summaries, 12-17 September 1992 (NASA Spacelink daily file collections, preserved on a CD-ROM image on discmaster.textfiles.com) -- contemporaneous public-affairs reports of the Blue Team's shifts: Jemison conducting the Gas Evaporation Facility experiment and the first check of the Space Acceleration Measurement System, injecting four female frogs with a hormone for the Frog Embryology Experiment, selecting with the ground team's agreement the two best egg-donor frogs of the four aboard, moving fertilized eggs into the General Purpose Workstation and observing them under a video microscope, agreeing with the payload manager a plan with Jan Davis to free a stuck workstation door, fixing frog-egg specimens with formaldehyde at set stages and showing the team the tadpoles, running the Liquid Drop Facility experiment (a Japanese co-investigator thanked her for her hard work although the experiments were not completely successful), and rotating chicken eggs each shift. NASA's own operational reporting by public-affairs staff, independent of Jemison's accounts, factual and not hostile; the copies read are third-party archival mirrors of the NASA releases, not NASA-hosted pages. Her participation as an experiment subject in the biofeedback and lower-body-negative-pressure studies, and the physiological-measurement and health-monitoring entries that go with it, were not used. Read the Jemison passages across the 12-17 September files.
- Marisa Mathias, 'Mae Jemison', National Women's History Museum biography, 2024 -- an independent museum biography: the chemical engineering and medical degrees, her summer with a medical-aid organisation in Kenya, the study she led for the American Medical Student Association, her presidency of a Student National Medical Association chapter and work on health fairs, the Thai refugee camp, the Peace Corps medical post (managing a medical office, laboratory, pharmacy and volunteer health training), her 1985 NASA application, the pause in selection after the Challenger accident, her reapplication and 1987 selection as one of 15 from over 2,000 applicants, STS-47, her departure in 1993, and her later science camp, professorship at Dartmouth, consulting company and 100 Year Starship. An educational museum biography built substantially on Jemison's own memoir and Ebony articles (quoted in it), so honouring and partly self-derived; its childhood, family, dance, personal-effects and quoted-memoir passages were not used. Read in full.
- Ben Evans, 'Of Marriage, Medaka Fish and Multiculturalism: The Legacy of STS-47', AmericaSpace, 28 October 2012 -- a spaceflight-history feature on the mission: Spacelab-J as a NASA-Japan life and materials science flight on which 'astronauts do the science', Jemison designated NASA's 'science mission specialist' (performing payload-specialist duties, with a university biochemist as her backup, a role the article says was never seen again in the Shuttle era), the Blue and Red Team shift structure, her earlier Peace Corps medical work (care, self-care manuals, help with vaccine research), and the mission's close. Independent space-history journalism drawing on NASA documents and Jemison's recollections; its material on other crew members' marriage, family and divorce, on Jemison's childhood, schooling and experiences of discrimination, and an unsourced Peace Corps medical-evacuation anecdote told without attribution (apparently from her memoir) were not used. Read in full.
- Alan Boyle, 'Skipper chosen for starship effort', NBC News Cosmic Log, 7 January 2012 -- news report on DARPA's 100 Year Starship project: sources saying the team to manage it would be led by Mae Jemison, who had founded several ventures including the Jemison Group (a technology design and consulting company) and the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence (educational projects) and had played a prominent role in the 2011 100 Year Starship symposium; the $500,000 DARPA seed contract; the BBC's reading of an unreleased DARPA letter; the Tau Zero Foundation, a bidder that did not win, saying the contract was going to a team led by an ex-astronaut and its founder suggesting it would lower its profile; and a partner organisation's director describing the three-way team's different emphases. Independent news reporting that includes a losing bidder's reaction; DARPA had not yet confirmed the selection when it was written. Read in full.
- Ian O'Neill (Discovery News), 'Uniting the planet for a journey to another star', carried by NBC News, 30 May 2012 -- follow-up confirming that the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence, headed by Jemison, would head the multi-partner 100 Year Starship project (with Icarus Interstellar, the Foundation for Enterprise Development and the SETI Institute), that DARPA had awarded $500,000 as seed money, and describing the planned research institute and the project's stated inclusive aims in her words. Independent science journalism with substantial direct quotation of Jemison, so partly her own account; used only to confirm the foundation's role and the award. Read in full.
- Brid-Aine Parnell, 'Former coder, NASA 'naut to lead DARPA starship dream', The Register, 9 January 2012 -- short technology-news item reporting, from a letter seen by the BBC, that Jemison would head the 100 Year Starship project, describing the plan in a sceptical and irreverent tone as wildly aspirational against an eventual cost of billions and a $500,000 seed contract, and noting her programming work before NASA and her science mission specialist role on STS-47. Independent, lightly sceptical trade-press voice on the later venture; its Star Trek aside was not used. Read in full.
- NASA Image and Video Library record S92-40463 (Johnson Space Center), 'Official portrait of STS-47 Mission Specialist Mae C. Jemison in LES' (record date 1 July 1992; description 'Astronaut Mae C. Jemison, M.D., mission specialist'), with NASA's Media Usage Guidelines and the Wikimedia Commons original-file page 'Mae Carol Jemison.jpg' -- checked for the portrait's basis. Not used for any scoring.