As a child growing up, Jemison learned to make connections to science by studying nature. He was born on October 17, 1956 (age 55). She is a American.She said it was easier to apply to be a shuttle astronaut, "rather than waiting around in a cornfield, waiting for ET to pick me up or something." Then, when a white guy would ask the same question, the professor would say, "That's a very astute observation.'" Then, when a white guy would ask the same question, the professor would say, "That's a very astute observation.'"

Jemison was three years old, to take advantage of better educational opportunities there. Jemison says that as a young girl growing up in Chicago she always assumed she would get into space. "I thought, by now, we'd be going into space like you were going to work.Once when a splinter infected her thumb as a little girl, Jemison's mother turned it into a learning experience. She ended up doing a whole project about pus.