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Yi So-yeon

This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Taylor Anne Mordoh. It is featured in the Illustrated Women in History zine #5 which is available here http://etsy.me/2nMhm6n Yi So-yeon is an astronaut and biotechnologist who became the first Korean to fly in space. Yi was born and raised in Gwangju, South Korea. In 2006, …

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Mae Jemison

Mae Jemison is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space in 1992, when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Jemison was born in 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. At the age of three, Jemison’s family moved to Chicago so that she and her …