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Only on Action News Jax, we\u2019re hearing from a local business owner whose product will be traveling on NASA\u2019s Artemis II space mission in a few weeks.<\/p>\n
The saying goes, don\u2019t tell someone the sky is the limit because there are footprints on the moon \u2026<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s a saying that Bryan Croft, owner of Simply Stamps<\/a>, is about to know all too well.<\/p>\n Simply Stamps is a personalized product manufacturer based out of Jacksonville. Croft\u2019s family has been manufacturing rubber stamps for over 70 years.<\/p>\n He thought he\u2019d seen every request possible, until he got an unexpected phone call six months ago from NASA.<\/p>\n RELATED: NASA\u2019s new moon rocket moves to the pad ahead of astronaut launch as early as February<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDefinitely shocked,\u201d Croft said when asked what went through his head after hearing NASA was on the phone.<\/p>\n NASA asked Simply Stamps if they can create a rubber stamp using their logo for the astronauts to have during the upcoming Artemis II Mission to take around the moon. However, the stamp needed to match NASA\u2019s engineering requirements.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cIt could only weigh one ounce,\u201d Croft said.<\/p>\n For the next few months, Simply Stamps engineers worked to develop a prototype that matched NASA\u2019s requirements. When they sent back what they created, NASA gave them their stamp of approval.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t get a lot of times in my life in the last 20 plus years to get excited about a rubber stamp,\u201d Croft said. \u201cIt was a lot of fun!\u201d<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Croft has this message for anyone looking to launch their own business.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you really believe in it, stick with it and keep going!\u201d<\/p>\n NASA invited everyone who works at Simply Stamps to the Artemis II launch. The earliest that launch could happen is February 6.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only on Action News Jax, we\u2019re hearing from a local business owner whose product will be traveling on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,63491,116,118,117,11969,63495],"class_list":["post-128429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-bryan-croft","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-nasa","tag-rubber-stamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}