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Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, will be honored with a postage stamp next year, the U.S. Postal Service has announced.

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From the internet: The sheet itself does not carry a unique Scott number. Scott only assigns the sheet a number if there is more than one design and the number of designs equals the number of stamps.  The pair just has the "a" minor variety listing.  Since the sheet has 4 stamps with 2 designs then each stamp has a different catalog number.   It would be usually described as 5078-5078 Pluto sheet.

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Amazing stamp about the Gaia satellite from Germany.

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Admittedly, you can’t really see much here due to the heavy cancellation. The ledt one is about spaceflight and the right one shows a castle.

RU-5863776

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Scott # 2140 Czechoslovakia 1977.  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.

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Scott C83 Afars and Issas

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.

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Scott # 1148 France 1966

I love the look of this Stamp !

France had an active space program before it was merged into the European Space Agency.  This stamp commemorates the D-1 series launched from Algeria between 1965 and 1967. 

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Rocket Mail, And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

 The Cuban postal rocket program was established to determine the feasibility of using rockets to transport mail from Havana to other post offices in Cuba.

On April 24, 1999, the 60th anniversary of the Rocket Mail launch was marked with the release of  a single stamp showing the rocket in flight. April 24, 1999.