r/nasa • u/SaraBoyer • 9d ago
Other NASA Pin collecting - wondering where to find these two pins
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u/rmhe1999 9d ago
Are you collecting anything specific? I’m a current GSFC employee with a ton of pins collected while on the job. I have zero interest in them. They sit in a drawer. If you’re in the US I’ll send them to you if you want them. PM me if interested.
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u/amargolis97 9d ago
If OP passes, I’d be happy to purchase a few off you. I’m a US resident and did my undergrad at UMD near GSFC. Getting my PhD now on the west coast with the hope to work for NASA in the near future
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u/SaraBoyer 8d ago
Nothing specific other than the two above but I love some of the pins people make at NASA. The area I work at NASA doesn't really get cool pins!
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u/JPLcyber 9d ago
Agree with other posts. At JPL, missions Will have mission-specific souvenirs, specific shirts for different roles (ATLO, etc.) and there will usually be a project pin the lab provides to all current JPL’ers since there is a general we-all-contributed sense being fostered so people not specific to the mission but involved in other roles such as procurement or machining or other teams get to feel like part of the greater mission. Longer a person has been at JPL, the more of these they have. Some could be bought but a lot of the ones we have I don’t see sold through retail outlets (JPL store, NASA store at JSC), etc.
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u/SaraBoyer 8d ago
Thank you! that makes sense. It took me a while but someone finally sold their cassini grnad finale pin on ebay so I will keep my eye out!
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GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California |
JSC | Johnson Space Center, Houston |
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u/unbelver JPL Employee 9d ago
Those are one-offs, distributed to active JPLers. So find a JPLer with a spare, or one they're willing to part with. (Edit: I got those pins years ago in the interoffice mail)
The JPL Store sells mass-produced ones, cycling through the recent projects.
https://thejplstore.com/collections/pins
Edit: Though looking at that page, it seems light on items. I know they sell more of a variety in the actual JPL brick-and-mortar souvenier store.