The challenge of traveling to another star system could generate transformative activities, knowledge, and technologies that would dramatically benefit every nation on Earth in the near term and years to come. Jemison, the principal and leader of the 100 Year Starship program, stated on the organization’s website (): “When we explore space, we garner the greatest benefits here at home. “Creating an extraordinary tomorrow actually creates a better world today,” Jemison said. The goal? Human travel to another solar system in the next 100 years. Jemison is in demand, but she manages telescopic vision when it comes to her current project: 100 Year Starship. “And it also connects us to the planet and to the greater universe.” “It’s the one thing that connects us all around the world,” she said, in an interview with Diversity in STEAM Magazine. Mae Jemison, is a wild trip in your bones and a homecoming in your soul. Her vision sharpened, like a kid who takes her first plane flight. The first female African-American astronaut in space was not cured of curiosity when she whirled about the cosmos as part of NASA’s STS-47 in 1992.
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