08 March 2024

Empowered Woman

"The first thing about empowerment is to understand that you
have the right to be involved. The second one is that you have
something important to contribute. And the third piece is that
you have to take the risk to contribute it."

Mae Jemison is an American engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space in 1992.

The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission, launched in September 2016 and returned in September 2023. The stamp shows a capsule containing a sample of the asteroid Bennu parachuting down to Earth.  

Sent by Phillip (the USA).

4 comments:

  1. Another pictorial postmark applied really nicely by USPS

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    1. The one I got yesterday ("Collar") was also carefully applied. You will see.

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    1. The do a great job with postmarks. Plus, the envelopes arrived protected by a transparent plastic bag.

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