Sally Ride, Astronaut and Educator

This image shows Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, who was also part of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Ride led the Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students (MoonKAM) project, which allowed students nationwide to target lunar images to be taken by Ebb and Flow, the two GRAIL spacecraft.

Image credit: Sally Ride Science