SALLY RIDE * Ride Estate COA * Her Owned Space Stamps EX: Smithsonian

SALLY RIDE'S PERSONALLY OWNED STAMPS FROM HER COLLECTION EXHIBITED AT THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM!

First American Woman in space DR. SALLY K. RIDE her personally owned "Republique Du Mali" stamps commemorating her historic space flight. Ride's stamp collection was exhibited at the Smithsonian museum.

A single block of 15 unused stamps issued by Mali in 1983. Mint/Near Mint condition.

Sally Ride collected stamps throughout her adult life. Her collection even included stamps commemorating her own achievements. The United States issued a stamp with her portrait in 2018.

Ride later flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger as a crew member on her historic, six-day STS-7 mission as America's first female astronaut. Ride would go on to become the first American woman to fly twice, with a lifetime total of more than 343 hours spent in space. A two-time Challenger space shuttle astronaut, she would go on to serve on the Rogers Commission, the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster. Ride died of pancreatic cancer in 2012.

The Sally Ride stamp block is accompanied by a COPY of the COA from Mark Roesler, Chairman & CEO of CMG Worldwide, the Official Intellectual Property and Licensing Representative of the Sally Ride Estate certifying that these stamps (and others) were personally owned by her.

NOTE: This auction is for a single sheet of 15 SALLY RIDE Republique Du Mali stamps only, as shown. Any others are shown for reference only. 

Ride, the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space at just 32, was the first American woman in space, and only the third internationally after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.

Condition is as shown. One of the very few personally-owned Ride items to ever come to market. 

Sold as is, as shown.