JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 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":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Only on Action News Jax, we\u2019re hearing from a local business owner whose product will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,643,63862,63861,63864,969,116,118,117,634,656,52196,11969,63863,63860],"class_list":{"0":"post-129481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news","9":"tag-action_news_jack","10":"tag-artemis_2","11":"tag-brian_croft","12":"tag-croft","13":"tag-jack","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","16":"tag-jacksonville-news","17":"tag-local","18":"tag-madison_foglio","19":"tag-madison_fuglio","20":"tag-nasa","21":"tag-simply_stamp","22":"tag-simply_stamps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129481","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=129481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}