Sally Ride

Marcia Belsky performs at SESSION 2 at TEDWomen 2021: What Now? December 1-3, 2021, Palm Springs, California. Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED

Health & Safety

Marcia Belsky: That time when NASA (almost) sent Sally Ride to space with 100 tampons

9:25am June 03, 2022

Ahead of her 1983 space flight, NASA suggested sending astronaut Sally Ride with 100 tampons for the week-long trip. (That's too many.) In 2020, comedian Marcia Belsky sang a song about it.

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Poet and activist Maya Angelou seen addressing the Democratic National in Boston, Massachusetts in July 2004. She is one of the female trailblazers who will be featured on some U.S. quarters starting in 2022.

National
Economy

Maya Angelou, Sally Ride and other trailblazing women will be featured on U.S. coins

12:00pm October 07, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

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.