SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Jemison left NASA in 1993 and founded a technology research company. She later formed a non-profit educational foundation and through the foundation is the principal of the 100 Year Starship project funded by DARPA.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dr. Mae Jemison is the Principal for the 100 Year Starship Project. Her leadership and vision provides guidance and direction for the foundation and in fulfilling its goal of ensuring all the capabilities for a successful human journey to another star will exist by 2112.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 100 Year Starship project was launched with a grant from DARPA in 2011 and one goal: “to make the capability of human travel beyond our solar system a reality within the next 100 years.” And Jemison is the person in charge, doing everything from organizing symposia to finding researchers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Now, she is leading the 100 Year Starship project, an effort to drive forward the capability for interstellar travel within the next century. Jemison grew up in Chicago in the 1960s. She always had a keen interest in science, but also wanted to be a professional dancer.

Detailed explanation-5: -There was, however, one Black female space-farer Jemison could turn to as a role model in her youth, albeit a fictional one: Star Trek’s Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, played by Nichelle Nichols. Encouraged by her example, Jemison pursued the sciences, eventually attaining her medical degree in 1981.

Detailed explanation-6: -She completed the intensive training, eventually being assigned to STS-47, a Spacelab Life Sciences mission. On this eight-day flight Jemison served as a science mission specialist and carried out experiments on the effects of space motion sickness, frog fertilization in space, and bone loss during spaceflight.