The grave marker for the final resting place of Mary Golda Ross, an engineer of Cherokee lineage whose work helped develop the spacecraft for the Gemini and Apollo space programs, bears the epitaph, “She Reached for the Stars” to the right of a rocket being launched. Dressed in her native Cherokee ceremonial dress, a then 96-year-old Mary Golda Ross is escorted to the 2004 opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.