Astronaut Sally Ride , To Be Featured on a 2022 US Quarter.
Sally Ride was , the first American woman to travel to space.
She flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 and 1984.
She intended to go a third time, but after Challenger exploded in 1986, the shuttle program was suspended.
She intended to go a third time, but after Challenger exploded in 1986, the shuttle program was suspended.
Ride retired a year later but continued to advise NASA.
She later became director of the California Space Institute at UC San Diego and eventually wrote six children's books about science.
In 2001, she started a company called Sally Ride Science, which was focused on reducing the gender gap in STEM fields.
Ride died in 2012 at the age of 61.
She will be featured on one of the first five coins in the U.S. Mint's American Women Quarters Program, which will run from 2022 through 2025.
Other women to be featured include Maya Angelou, Wilma Mankiller, Nina Otero-Warren and Anna May Wong.
Other women to be featured include Maya Angelou, Wilma Mankiller, Nina Otero-Warren and Anna May Wong.
Other women to be featured include Maya Angelou, Wilma Mankiller, Nina Otero-Warren and Anna May Wong.
Other women to be featured include Maya Angelou, Wilma Mankiller, Nina Otero-Warren and Anna May Wong