22-Karat Golden Sacagawea Space Dollars Landing in Milwaukee
Eileen Collins (Colonel, USAF, RET.) had an exceptional career with NASA. Her achievements helped springboard not 
only the launch of missions, but that of the Sacagawea Dollar coins. Let’s swing through a quick series of historical events tying Collins and the Sacagawea coins together. Warp back to July 23, 1999…
On that day, NASA Mission STS-93 Columbia blasted off into space carrying Chandra X-ray Observatory - one of NASA’s four Great Observatories, like the Hubble Telescope. Cool stuff!
But throw out the scientific values of the trip and two things stand out: Collins was the first woman to command a space shuttle and with her went some unique “pocket change”. The change? You guessed it… Sacagawea Golden Dollars. But these aren’t the golden dollars we’re used to seeing dispensed from post office vending machines!
