page_title: John Herrington
section_title: Spaceflight
hierarchical_section_title: John Herrington / NASA career / Spaceflight
caption_attribution_description: English: Reverse of the 2019 Native American Dollar coin, designed by Emily Damstra and sculpted by Joseph Menna. The coin depicts Mary G. Ross, a Native American engineering pioneer, writing a mathematical formula. On the coin is written one of the formulas that Ross helped discover. In the background of the coin is a rocket blasting off among stars, with a suited astronaut.
context_page_description: John Bennett Herrington is a retired United States Naval Aviator and former NASA astronaut. In 2002, Herrington became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. He is married to Debra Ann Farmer.
context_section_description: Herrington was selected as a Mission Specialist for STS-113, the sixteenth Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour was launched from Kennedy Space Center on November 23, 2002 to deliver the P1 Truss segment, which provides structural support for the Space Station radiators. Endeavour also delivered a new Expedition 6 crew to the Station, returning to Earth on December 7, 2002 with the Expedition 5 crew ending their 6-month stay in space. The total mission duration was 13 days, 18 hours and 47 minutes.
  During the mission Herrington performed three spacewalks, totaling 19 hours and 55 minutes.  These spacewalks are commemorated on the reverse of the 2019 Sacagawea dollar coin.
caption: Herrington's spacewalk (upper right) on the 2019 Sacagawea dollar
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