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As payload manager, Anderson managed the hundreds of science experiments that were conducted in the laboratory on board. One of the experiments was growing prostate cancer cells, a disease that afflicts African-American men at a higher rate than the general population. Anderson, who was a second lieutenant in the Air Force, received a Masters degree in physics from Creighton University. He began his training for NASA in 1995, and had his first space flight in 1998 as a mission specialist, when he spent 211 hours in space. The Columbia space shuttle was his second assignment.

Anderson was the third African-American to die in flight. Ronald E. McNair died in the 1986 Challenger explosion and Robert Lawrence died in 1967 in a plane crash during a training flight.

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African-American women business owners double in number
The number of African-American women business owners with bank credit of $100,000 or more doubled between 1998 and 2002, according to a report by the Center for Women’s Business Research sponsored by Wells Fargo. The Center also reported that the number of businesses owned by African-American women increased by 17 percent in the same period. “That is more than double the rate of all business,” said Brenda Ross Dulan, market president for the Los Angeles Metro Region and national spokesperson for Well Fargo’s African-American Business Services Program.

Other findings highlighted that African-American women are more likely to start and run their businesses without partners, are more likely to be the sole owners of their firms, and that they encounter more obstacles than other ethnicities when trying to secure financing for their firms.

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Compiled by Ines Bebea