markmccaughrean, 2 months ago

Many items of space swag & merch are coming to light as I clear out my office at ESTEC. Here are two from opposite ends of the price spectrum:

1. A hand-painted Royal Delft porcelain plate (number 92/100) made ahead of the Rosetta launch … and ahead of its rescheduling to March 2004 & to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ☄️😳

2. An NGST coffee (probably) from the late 1990s, before it was renamed JWST & when the mission proudly wore its influences on its sleeve 🛰️🔭

#Astrodon #SpaceScience

A cheap white coffee mug saying “NGST Next Generation Space Telescope” in purple, in a typeface vaguely reminiscent of the one used for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The other side of the NGST coffee mug with a chevron, vaguely Starfleet badge shaped logo schematically showing the Big Bang, the CMB, and the first stars and galaxies below.