SALLY RIDE

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After almost 40 years circling Earth, a NASA satellite has plunged harmlessly through the atmosphere.

A Northrop Grumman capsule has delivered several tons of supplies to the International Space Station despite a jammed solar panel.

Skywatcher Alexander Krivenyshev captured stunning shots of the Antares rocket shining brightly above New York City's famous skyline early Monday morning (Nov. 7).

A newly launched cargo capsule has run into trouble with a solar panel after liftoff.

A fire alarm on Earth prevented the launch of Northrop Grumman's NG-18 cargo ship for NASA on Nov. 6.

More than 60 years after Anna May Wong became the first Asian American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the pioneering actor has coined another first, quite literally.

She set sail as a research vessel, shipped out as postage stamp and stood tall as a monument. Now, America's first woman in space is set to return to orbit as the namesake of a station cargo capsule.

The U.S. Mint is launching the Dr. Sally Ride American Women Quarters 2022 Ornament featuring the mint's 25-cent coin honoring the astronaut.

A statue of the first American woman to fly into space will soon stand near where the first lunar landing spacecraft were built, just as NASA works toward landing the first woman on the moon.

Among the honorees are a former first lady, pilot, ballerina, composer and journalist.

The late Native Hawaiian hula teacher Edith Kanaka’ole is among five women who will be individually featured on U.S. quarters next year as part of a program that depicts notable women on the coin.

The first American woman to fly into space has launched on a new mission, this time to orbit the nation in the form of a circulating coin. The U.S. Mint has begun shipping the Sally Ride quarter.

The coins are the first in the U.S. Mint's American Women Quarters Program.

The United States Mint says it has begun shipping quarters featuring the image of poet Maya Angelou.

“It’s condescending. It’s demoralizing,” said one former top executive of conditions prompting many to leave the company.

For a limited time beginning next year, the U.S. Mint will issue quarters honoring women from history. The first batch celebrates icons in civil rights, politics, humanities and science.

As the first American woman to fly into space, Sally Ride became one of the largest figures in space exploration history. Now, Ride is being honored with a Little People figure in her likeness.

SpaceX’s first private flight will is led by a 38-year-old entrepreneur who’s bankrolling the entire trip. He’s taking two sweepstakes winners with him on the three-day, round-the-world trip, along with a health care worker who survived childhood cancer.

Poet Maya Angelou, astronaut Sally Ride, suffrage activist Adelina Otero-Warren, film star Anna May Wong and Cherokee Nation leader Wilma Mankiller will appear on quarters starting in 2022.

A string of notable American women will appear on the U.S. quarter under a four-year program that begins in 2022.

Nine people were killed after a gunman opened fire at a San Jose light rail facility before taking his own life.

Nine people were killed after a gunman opened fire at a San Jose light rail facility before taking his own life.

An employee opened fire on co-workers, then turned the gun on himself, authorities said.

Mayor Sam Liccardo said the situation is still being assessed.

The poet and astronaut will make history again as two of 20 distinguished women to be honored by the U.S. Mint.

Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island.

The season two finale of the Apple TV+ series "For All Mankind" might feature an alternate-history showdown between two space powers.

More: Sally Ride: First American Woman in Space (Pictures) Ride was 32 when the STS-7 mission launched into space. Image 6 of 22 (Image credit: NASA) First African American woman in space: Mae Jemison NASA astronaut Mae Jemison flew on space shuttle Endeavour in September 1992, becoming the first African-American woman to travel to space. Koch launched to the space station on March 14, 2019 and returned to Earth on Feb. 6, 2020. Image 14 of 22 (Image credit: NASA) First Japanese woman in space: Chiaki Mukai The first Japanese woman in space was Chiaki Mukai, representing the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). Image 17 of 22 (Image credit: Documentary Channel) First female space tourist: Anousheh Ansari Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari became the first female space tourist when she funded her own way to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule in 2006 through the firm Space Adventures.

(Mike Brown/American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital via AP)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After beating bone cancer, Hayley Arceneaux figures rocketing into orbit on SpaceX’s first private flight should be a piece of cosmic cake. When she was 10, she had surgery at St. Jude to replace her knee and get a titanium rod in her left thigh bone. Isaacman announced his space mission Feb. 1, pledging to raise $200 million for St. Jude, half of that his own contribution. As the flight’s self-appointed commander, he offered one of the four SpaceX Dragon capsule seats to St. Jude. One will be a sweepstakes winner; anyone donating to St. Jude this month is eligible.

Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images(CNN) - Children everywhere are going to get the chance to have two historical female role models as part of their playsets. Mattel is honoring Rosa Parks and Sally Ride with their very own Barbie dolls. Rosa Parks was an American activist known as the Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement and Sally Ride was the first American woman -- and youngest American -- to fly in space. "Both Sally Ride and Rosa Parks made the world better for future generations of girls," a Mattel spokesperson told CNN. Showing girls more role models, historical and present, and telling their stories can help close that gap.