2019-S $1 Native American Dollar "American Indians in the Space Program"
- The 2019 Native American $1 Coin reverse highlights the contributions of Native Americans to the U.S. Space Program
- Mint: San Fransisco
- Grade: Proof
- Composition: 6% Zinc, 3.5% Manganese, 2% Nickel, Balance Copper
- Diameter: 26.5mm
American Indians have been contributing to the success of space flight since its beginning. As example the multiple spacewalks of John Herrington (Chickasaw) on the International Space Station in 2002. Also the work of Mary Golda Ross (Cherokee), who helped develop the Agena spacecraft for the Gemini and Apollo Programs was one of the first female American Indian engineers.
Rev. Features an astronaut, symbolic of Native American astronauts, including Herrington spacewalks above. Mary Golda Ross writing calculations. Behind her, an Atlas / Agena rocket launches into space, with an equation inscribed in its cloud.