Mastodawn

Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.

But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison

Also, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2

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Infoseepage 7h ago

@spocko But not first black person. The first person of African descent to fly into space was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, a Cuban, way back in 1980.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaldo_Tamayo_M%C3%A9ndez

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez - Wikipedia

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Infoseepage

@spocko Basically, the Russians won on both first colored person in space, first woman in space, first Latino in space etc.

Granted, they were doing it for the propaganda value to show that the US space program was racist, sexist, etc....but, you know, it was...