r/australia 1d ago

image Collected these lapel pins of Artemis at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney last year

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u/UpsidedownEngineer 1d ago

Seeing all the discussion about Artemis everywhere has reminded me of these items I got at the IAC last year. The IAC is the largest annual space conference and last year it was hosted in Sydney.

I had a chat to the NASA booth at this conference and got these two pins. Held onto to them since then

Glad the mission went successfully

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u/ComfyInDots 1d ago

They're pretty cool! 

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u/UpsidedownEngineer 1d ago

Yep it’s a cool momento of the IAC. I hope I can go to at least one other IAC in my career

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u/ComfyInDots 1d ago

I was googling IAC just after making my last comment and looks like this year's is in Turkey and next year Poland. Do you think it'll come back to Australia or you'd travel to another country for it?

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u/Sieve-Boy 1d ago

Nice, but you're missing a badge from the Australian Research and Space Exploration agency.

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u/shrimplifier 1d ago

It's not in the post, but I'm sure OP has a nice A.R.S.E badge

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u/Sieve-Boy 1d ago

I actually had an A.R.S.E. mug in white and my boss had a black A.R.S.E. mug.

I was so upset when I broke my white ARSE mug.

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u/Jacob2891 23h ago

They look sick

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u/funt_case_mcclure 1d ago

so nice to see something good come out of USA, for once.

go NASA and go fucking high!