Sketched first in charcoal and then rendered in oil paint, artist Paul Salmon of Burke, VA, features Sally Ride. (Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications). From Encino, Calif. to the first woman in space, Sally Ride lived a life for the history books. And, as it turned out, she had a thing for history - on U.S. postal stamps. Now, the space pioneer, born in the San Fernando Valley, will be immortalized on a stamp of her own. Ride died of cancer in 2012, but it was a life that blasted off like a rocket - and, of course, in a rocket. On June 18, 1983, she became the first U.S. woman to reach space after traveling on the space shuttle Challenger and spending six days in space with her...
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