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Among those are Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian astronaut to command the International Space Station and the only Canadian to have ever boarded the Russian Space Station Mir while in orbit, and Mae Jemison, who became the first African-American woman to go to space in the space shuttle Endeavour." Aronofsky will assume executive producer responsibilities on[...]

She also developed NASA's astronomy research program. Mae Jemison, astronaut, physician, and entrepreneur: Trained as a medical doctor, Jemison became the first African-American woman in space in 1992 After retiring from NASA, Jemison established a company that develops new technologies and encourages students in the sciences. In addition to a desktop frame that displays these five minifigures[...]