The Nation - News from Oct. 1, 1989
NASA named astronaut crews for five space shuttle missions scheduled for 1990 and 1991, including the first black woman selected for space flight. Dr. Mae C. Jemison, 32, a physician, was assigned as a mission specialist to a June, 1991, flight aboard the shuttle Discovery. The mission is to conduct life sciences and materials processing experiments. She was working with Cigna Health Plans of California and as a general practitioner in Los Angeles when selected for the astronaut program in 1985.
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