{"id":88502,"date":"2019-03-08T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/on-international-womens-day-google-celebrates-nasa-pioneer-mae-jemison"},"modified":"2019-03-08T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:22:21","slug":"on-international-womens-day-google-celebrates-nasa-pioneer-mae-jemison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/on-international-womens-day-google-celebrates-nasa-pioneer-mae-jemison","title":{"rendered":"On International Women\u2019s Day, Google Celebrates NASA Pioneer Mae Jemison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Never be limited by other people\u2019s limited imaginations\u2026 If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won\u2019t exist because you\u2019ll have already shut it out\u2026 You can hear other people\u2019s wisdom, but you\u2019ve got to re-evaluate the world for yourself. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a physician, Peace Corps volunteer, entrepreneur, teacher, dancer, and astronaut, Jemison has certainly lived her life in protest of people\u2019s limited imaginations. Born in 1956<\/a>, Jemison\u2019s interest in STEM rooted early, and she enrolled at Stanford University when she was only 16. She majored in degrees in both chemical engineering and Afro-American studies, and she went on to receive an M.D. just four years later.<\/p>\n

Jemison worked as a medical practitioner and served for two-and-a-half years in the Peace Corps as a medical officer. When she returned to the United States in 1985, she did something incredibly difficult: She pivoted her career entirely to pursue her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. Jemison applied to the NASA astronaut training program, was selected from a field of 2,000 individuals<\/a>, and in 1992, became the first African-American woman to go to space.<\/p>\n

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Never be limited by other people\u2019s limited imaginations\u2026 If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won\u2019t exist because you\u2019ll have already shut it out\u2026 You can hear other people\u2019s wisdom, but you\u2019ve got to re-evaluate the world for yourself. As a physician, Peace Corps volunteer, entrepreneur, teacher, dancer, and astronaut, Jemison has certainly lived [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}