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  • Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
    Oct 17, 2026, 12:05 PM

    to daily life, and even appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation (which would make her the first Star Trek actor who has been to space). Inspired to join NASA by Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, she was the first real astronaut to appear on any Star Trek show.⁠
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    Jemison is a Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and was a professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College from 1995 to 2002. 🧵2/

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  • Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
    Oct 17, 2026, 12:05 PM

    As well as her own company the Jemison Group, she founded the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence with projects like The Earth We Share (TEWS), an international science camp for students, ages 12 to 16, and biotech company BioSentient Corp.⁠

    This is also my entry for the #Spacetober_challenge astronaut prompt for Day 15. 🧵3/3

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