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