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“Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet.
— Mae Jemison
Astronaut, physician and engineer
Then & Now: Dr. Mae Jemison, CNN, 19 June 2005
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