1 Dollar "Native American Dollar" (American Indians in the Space Program) , United States
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Obverse
Sacagawea carrying her infant son, Jean Baptiste.
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LIBERTY IN GOD WE TRUST GG
Reverse
Mary Golda Ross writing calculations. In the background, an Atlas-Agena rocket launches into space, with an equation inscribed in its cloud. The equation, denoting the energy it takes to leave Earth and reach the orbit of a distant planet, represents her important contributions to the space program. An astronaut, symbolic of Native American astronauts, including John Herrington, conducts a spacewalk above. A group of stars in the field behind indicates outer space.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA $1 V2∞ = V2– 2μ/r ESD JFM
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