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Women Have Made Their Mark In NASA. And Now, Another Woman, Astronaut Jeanette Epps, Is Set To Build On That By Becoming The First Black Woman To Live And Work For A Long Term (6 Months) Aboard The International Space Station–She Is Scheduled To Launch In 2021. Astronaut Mae Jemison, In 1992, Became The First Black Woman In Space. Cool!
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps to be first Black woman to join International Space Station crewNASA astronaut Jeanette Epps will soon make history, becoming the first Black woman to live and work long-term aboard the International Space Station. Her flight is scheduled for 2021. NASA announced this week that Epps has been assigned to the first operational crewed flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. She will join astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada …