Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham, born August 3, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois, is the third black woman in space, behind Mae Jemison and Stephanie Wilson. She flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-116) as a mission specialist in December 2006. It was the first shuttle mission to carry two African-American astronauts and the first time the ESA had two astronauts in space at the same time.
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