| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of Issue | May 23, 2018 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Quantity | 20,000,000 |
| Denomination |
First-Class Mail Forever
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| Denomination Value | $0.50 | Color | Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, PMS 7687 |
| Perforation or Dimension | 1.225 x 1.56 in/31.12 x 39.62 mm |
| Issue Location | La Jolla, CA 92037 |
| Postal Administration | United States |
| Condition | Name | Avg Value |
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Be inspired by this new 21.36 x 25.295 inch press sheet with die cuts, containing nine sheets of Sally Ride Forever® stamps positioned three across by three down.
America's first woman in space, Dr. Sally Ride inspired the nation as a pioneering astronaut, brilliant physicist, and dedicated educator. The stamp features a colorful portrait of Ride in front of a dramatic depiction of a space shuttle lifting off.
Made in the USA
SKUs featured on this page: 477306
Be inspired by this new Sally Ride First Day Cover. The #6 3/4 in envelope bears an affixed Forever® stamp cancelled with an official First Day of Issue postmark.
America's first woman in space, Dr. Sally Ride inspired the nation as a pioneering astronaut, brilliant physicist, and dedicated educator. The stamp features a colorful portrait of Ride in front of a dramatic depiction of a space shuttle lifting off.
The pictorial postmark features Sally's autograph, seemingly floating in space and surrounded by stars. Also included are the stamp title, as well as the date and location of stamp issuance: May 23, 2018, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Made in the USA
SKUs featured on this page: 477316
Be inspired by this new Sally Ride Digital Color Postmark First Day Cover. The #6 in envelope bears an affixed Forever® stamp cancelled with an official First Day of Issue color postmark.
America's first woman in space, Dr. Sally Ride inspired the nation as a pioneering astronaut, brilliant physicist, and dedicated educator. The stamp features a colorful portrait of Ride in front of a dramatic depiction of a space shuttle lifting off.
The digital color postmark was influenced by the Nasa STS-7 patch, worn by all crew members on Ride's historic space shuttle mission. Also included are the stamp title, as well as the date and location of stamp issuance: May 23, 2018, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Made in the USA
SKUs featured on this page: 477321
Be inspired by and give recognition to the First Day of Issue of the Sally Ride Forever® stamp, with this new official ceremony program and cover.
The full-color program features the First Day Ceremony agenda and participants on one side, with a narrative about the stamp design on the reverse.
The program is tucked inside a 9 x 6-inch envelope bearing an affixed Forever® stamp and the official First Day of Issue cancellation. Also included are the words "First Day of Issue Ceremony Program" and "Celebrate the Art of Stamps" along with the official United States Postal Service® logo.
Made in the USA
SKUs featured on this page: 477330
Be inspired by this keepsake combination: one pane of 20 Sally Ride Forever® stamps and one Digital Color Postmark First Day Cover.
America's first woman in space, Dr. Sally Ride inspired the nation as a pioneering astronaut, brilliant physicist, and dedicated educator. The stamp features a colorful portrait of Ride in front of a dramatic depiction of a space shuttle lifting off.
The digital color postmark was influenced by the Nasa STS-7 patch, worn by all crew members on Ride's historic space shuttle mission. Also included are the stamp title, as well as the date and location of stamp issuance: May 23, 2018, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Made in the USA
SKUs featured on this page: 477310
Be inspired by this new Sally Ride Stamp Ceremony Memento.
This new collectible contains the First Day of Issue Ceremony Invitation, the First Day of Issue Ceremony Program, Digital Color Postmark First Day Cover, and a pane of 20 Sally Ride Forever® stamps.
America’s first woman in space, Dr. Sally Ride inspired the nation as a pioneering astronaut, brilliant physicist, and dedicated educator. The stamp features a colorful portrait of Ride in front of a dramatic depiction of a space shuttle lifting off.
Made in the USA.
SKUs featured on this page: 477334
Commemorate America’s first woman in space with this new American Commemorative Panel®. This 8 ½ x 11 ¼-inch panel, printed on sturdy card stock, features imagery of a space shuttle lifting off in the background and includes a narrative about the pioneering astronaut, brilliant physicist, and dedicated educator.
Also included is a block of four Sally Ride Forever® stamps in a protective acetate mount.
Ride’s signature appears at the bottom of the panel and is printed in black using the intaglio technique.
Quantities are limited.
Made in the USA.
SKUs featured on this page: 477333
Adventure through outer space with this postal galactic passport, discovering the incredible milestones of space exploration. Learn about historic "firsts" and mount nine stamps in your passport from the Sally Ride (2018), Mercury Project & MESSENGER Mission (2011), Space Discovery (1998), and First Moon Landing (1994) issuances.
The set also includes five unique mission patches, each representing significant "space firsts".
Made in the USA
SKUs featured on this page: 477327
On May 23, 2018, in La Jolla, CA, the U.S. Postal Service® will issue the Sally Ride stamp (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail® rate) in one design, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of 20 stamps. The stamp will go on sale nationwide May 23, 2018.
America's first woman in space, Dr. Sally Ride (1951-2012), inspired the nation as a pioneering astronaut, brilliant physicist, and dedicated educator.
The stamp art features a colorful portrait of Ride in her light blue space suit with a dramatic depiction of a space shuttle lifting off in the background. Sketched first in charcoal and then rendered in oil paint, artist Paul Salmon's design reflects her positivity and confident spirit, as well as the excitement and danger of space travel.
After completing her Ph.D. in physics, Ride joined NASA's 1978 class of astronaut candidates for the agency's new space shuttle program. She was the first woman to serve as a capsule communicator for Columbia's second flight in 1981, communicating from the ground with both the shuttle crew in space and the flight director at Mission Control. In the spring of 1982, NASA assigned her to her first flight crew as a mission specialist.
On June 18, 1983, at 7:33 a.m., Ride realized her ultimate adventure when she launched through Earth's atmosphere aboard space shuttle Challenger, becoming the first American woman to reach space. For six days, she worked closely with her four male crewmates, proving to the world below that women were just as adept as men in the final frontier. She completed a second successful trip to space the next year, breaking another barrier as a member of the first flight crew with two women.
Ride was the only person to sit on the investigative panels for both the Challenger and Columbia accidents. As a professor, she used her experiences in space to explain complicated physics concepts. She also coauthored six children's books about science with her partner Tam O'Shaughnessy. In 2001, Ride and O'Shaughnessy joined three friends to start a science education company, Sally Ride Science, with the goal of narrowing the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Ride galvanized the country with her pioneering spaceflight and inspired generations of students as a physicist, astronaut, and champion of science education.
Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamp.
The Sally Ride stamp is being issued as a Forever® stamp. This Forever stamp will always be equal to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce price.