Aha Moments
“If we let our fears prevent us from achieving our goals in life, man would have never been able to walk on the moon or even fly a plane.” – Mr. Jones

Inventor and engineer, Lewis Latimer, invented a ‘water closet for railroad cars’ and drafted the patent drawings for Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone. In 1881, he devised a method for making a carbon filament for a light bulb made by one of Thomas Edison's competitors, and then supervised that firm’s installation of electric lights in several major cities.

Dr. Mae C. Jemison became the first woman of color to go into space when she boarded the space shuttle Endeavor, September 12, 1992, Dr. Jemison was Science Mission Specialist (a NASA first) on the STS-47 Space lab J flight, a US/Japan joint mission