This Week in Black History September 12, 1992

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Chicago physician Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space when the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center and carries her and six other astronauts on 126 orbits around the Earth. 

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