Mae Jemison spent 190 hours, 30 minutes, and 23 seconds in space during her mission on STS-47 Spacelab J.
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When Bach was 15, he walked with a friend about 200 miles from his home to Lüneburg so he could study music and sing in the choir at a special school.
Abraham Lincoln once used a piece of string to solve a complex math problem.
Impact & Legacy
Plato’s way of thinking about school — mixing learning, doing math and science, training the body, and thinking about big ideas — shaped how schools work for thousands of years after him.
Mae Jemison founded the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence, named after her mother.