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McGraw-Hill Companies  \nCopyright OMcGraw-Hill School Division,a Division of the Educational and Professional Publishing Group of  \nThe McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc.  \nAl rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronicor mechanical,including photocopying,recording,or by any information storage and retrieval system,withoutpermission in writing from the publisher.  \nMcGraw-Hil School Division1221 Avenue of the AmericasNew York,New York 10020  \nBook Design and Production:Curriculum Concepts  \nllustration and Photo Credits:Cover,Title Page,Pages 2-3,8-13,16:NASA;Pages 4-5,Border art.Pages 6-7.  \n.12-15:Roberta Collier-Morales;Page 6:UPI/Corbis-Bettmann;Page 15:APWide World  \nAcknowledgments:The publisher gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint from the following sources:  \nquote on page 3 from \"Shooting for the Moon\"by Nikki Giovanni.Essence,Apri 1993.  \nquote on page 14 from\"Astronaut Jemison Welcomed Home\"by Kevin Chappell.Chicago Tribune.October 16,1992.quote on page 16 from \"To Boldly Go...\"by Constance M.Green.Ms.,July/August 1992.  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nISBN 0-02-147718-3  \n Uo,1p,and Away!The Mae Jemison Story  \nby Howard Gutner  \n一  \nt is Friday morning,September 12,1992.Insidethe space shuttle,Dr.Mae Jemison sits very still.A voice on the radio counts down the numbers.  \nTen,nine,eight,seven,six...  \nMae thinks about flying high above Earth.Whatwill it look like from the window of the shuttle?  \nFive,four,three,two,one...  \nThe shuttle takes off.Mae is on her way!  \n☆  \nSoon,the shuttle begins to circle Earth.Mae getsup and goes to the window.“The first thing I saw wasChicago,\"she said later.That made her smile.  \nChicago is where Mae grew up.Maybe she wassmiling because she could picture her family on theground,looking up.Or Mae might have been smilingbecause she had just made history.She was the firstAfrican American woman to go into space.  \nMae Carol Jemison was born on October 17,1956.When she was still a baby,Mae's familymoved from Alabama to Chicago.  \nOne day,a teacher asked Mae what she wantedto be.Mae said she wanted to be a scientist.\"Don'tyou mean a nurse?\"the teacher asked.Years later,Mae said,\"Now,there's nothing wrong with being anurse,but that's not what I wanted to be.\"  \nMae's favorite subject in school was science.OnSaturdays,Mae's mother and father took her to thelibrary.She spent many hours there reading booksabout space.She also watched takeoffs and moonlandings on television.On summer nights,she likedto lie on the grass in her yard.She would look up atthe stars and dream of flying into space.  \n☆  \n5  \n6  \nMae learned a lot in the Peace Corps.Shewas one of the youngest people there.  \nSometimes she had to work with people whothought she was too young to be a doctor.Maeproved that she knew what she was doing.  \nIn 1985,Mae returned to Los Angeles.Shehad not forgotten her dream of going into 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