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Topic: Sally Ride's personal space stamp collection
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted 06-19-2018 12:00 AM
   
collectSPACE Sally Ride's space stamp collection: Inside the astronaut's albumsLong before Sally Ride left her stamp on space history, the famed astronaut discovered a passion for collecting space stamps. Ride, who became the first American woman to fly in space 35 years ago Monday (June 18), was honored last month with a U.S. postage stamp of her own. Though she did not live long enough to see it — Ride died at the age of 61 in 2012 — her partner Tam O'Shaughnessy said Ride would have been "thrilled beyond belief." "Sally collected stamps most of her life," said O'Shaughnessy at the United States Postal Service's dedication ceremony for the Sally Ride Forever stamp held at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla on May 23.  |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
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From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-19-2018 07:24 AM
Interesting, and a bit ironic. On one occasion, a friend tried to get a cover signed by Ride (at a scheduled session) and she refused. |
cosmos-walter
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From: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 06-19-2018 03:05 PM
Are any astronauts or cosmonauts collecting space stamps and/or covers? |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-19-2018 06:17 PM
Wasn't Hank Hartsfield and isn't Stephanie Wilson a stamp collector? |
Cozmosis22
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From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 06-19-2018 06:44 PM
From "Who Collects Stamps," on the American Philatelic Society website: ...well known collectors include... astronaut Henry Hartsfield |
Ken Havekotte
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From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 06-19-2018 06:56 PM
Besides Hartsfield and Wilson, don't forget about Karl Henize and even Gordo Cooper collected space covers during his post-NASA years. Also Ed White's father was a space stamp/cover collector along with Barb Gordon (Dick's first wife), Ed Gibson (his father mostly) and some veteran shuttle astronauts, especially a few European space flyers and Russian cosmonauts. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42985
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-19-2018 07:30 PM
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Originally posted by Hart Sastrowardoyo:
...isn't Stephanie Wilson a stamp collector?
From my interview with Wilson before her launch on STS-121: I started collecting stamps pretty young, I believe when I was eight. I mostly collect stamps off letters that I receive. I usually don't go out and purchase stamps but I like to be able to tell a story about a stamp: it came from this individual, on this card.So, it's probably not worth very much but it's more sentimental than probably a pristine stamp collection. It's interesting to me to see the designs of the different stamps from the various countries. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-19-2018 08:54 PM
From a 1983 UPI article about John Fabian: "I've been doing it since I was 11 or 12 years old and I forgot how to stop. I don't collect American stamps. I used to. Then I decided I was wasting my time. If I bought it for 3 cents, it was always worth 3 cents or less." And Alexander Kaleri and Fyodor Yurchikhin are noted as being a collector on their NASA biographies. |
cosmos-walter
Member Posts: 691
From: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 06-20-2018 02:12 AM
Hank Hartsfield collected peculiar classic Austrian stamps |
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