{"id":1697,"date":"2008-02-16T08:22:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2008-02-16T08:22:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T13:22:55","slug":"on-carl-sagan-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"On Carl Sagan Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little more than a year ago, author Kevin Lauderdale suggested that the United States needs to issue a commemorative Carl Sagan stamp<\/a>. Sagan had done so much to educate the public on the wonders of science and the cosmos, and watching his television series COSMOS<\/i> was very much a defining moment in my own life.<\/p>\n

A group based in Utica, New York — the Sagan Appreciation Society — will be presenting Carl Sagan stamp designs to the United States Postal Service<\/a>. There’s no official word on the Postal Service’s part to issue stamps, but the group intends to lobby the Postal Service with the four designs they’ve created.<\/p>\n

\n“As Carl was America’s science popularizer, it seems fitting that he be bestowed with a populist kind of honor,” Fish said. “Carl wasn’t just an astronomer, physicist and the world’s pre-eminent science teacher. He was arguably the first exobiologist, one of the fathers of global-warming awareness, a peacemaker and a brilliant author who could make science sound like poetry.”<\/p>\n

Trautmann read a statement by Sagan’s widow, author Ann Druyan, at the media launch. She described how Sagan had been an avid stamp collector as a boy and how that interest was perhaps early evidence of his “passion for the diversity of Earth’s cultures.”<\/p>\n

“So this particular tribute to Carl would have held special significance for him, as it does for me,” Druyan said in the statement.<\/p>\n

The Sagan Appreciation Society initiated the process in 2007 when artists Greg Mort, Pat Linse, Lisa Hutter and Chris Fix began creating preliminary stamp designs.<\/p>\n

The process for getting a stamp approved by the U.S. government is an arduous one, and there are no guarantees of success. Designs must be submitted and approved by a 14-member Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, which meets four times per year. If approved, it can take years before the stamp is printed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Letters to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee are encouraged, to show that there’s demand for a Carl Sagan postage stamp:<\/p>\n

Citizens\u2019 Stamp Advisory Committee
\nStamp Development
\nUS Postal Service
\n1735 North Lynn St, Rm 5013
\nArlington VA 22209-6432<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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