Help! qui connait ces badges australiens?

Qui sait kelke chose sur ces badges? Pourquoi la mention "FTL's Endeavour Mission"?

Mon idée la plus plausible est un rapport avec un télescope australien baptisé "Endeavour" et embarqué dans les missions STS-42 et STS-67...

Mais pourquoi FTL? Faster than Light? je vois pas de rapport....

Aidez moi les spécialistes!

D'autres que toi se posent des questions sur internet... Et certains depuis longtemps (2011) sans réponse

Certains pensent qu'il s'agit de répliques d'un truc fait pour le cinéma.

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J'avais en tête que certain scénario, l'Australie pouvait être un site d'atterrissage d'urgence.
Un peu comme Istres en France.

Peut-être faut-il chercher dans cette direction.

un debut de reponse sur une annonce d'ebay:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lot-of-6-Australia-Space-Shuttle-Flight-Suit-Patches-3-diff-2-of-each-DUSTY-/193022458279

je copie la description au cas ou ce sujet remonterai apres pas mal de temps et que l'annonce pourrai etre supprimé :

They all refer to space shuttle Endeavour....and all say F.T.L.'s Endeavour Mission.
NEW INFORMATION.....A message from a collector suggests they might be Payload patches related to the Endeavour Space Telescope. He was quite right....if you go to Google and type in GAS payload Endeavour Australia....you'll find the article and photos on this payload on STS-67 in 1995. Canisters were G-387 & G-388. Payload was sponsored by Australian Space Office and the company Auspace Ltd.

This does not mean these particular patches are for those two organizations,as the patches say F.T.L.,and we still don't know who they are.
However,they probably still refer to the Australian Endeavour Telescope which flew on the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour.

NEW INFORMATION...Another collector advises me that there was a company called FTL Shuttle Promotions,a subsidiary of an investment group.....which constructed a 1:1 scale replica of the space shuttle on the Gold Coast,Queensland,Australia,about 1990.
This was on display for about six months at Gold Coast city, before being shipped to USA. The replica had a 60 seat cinema in the cargo bay,and was overall very impressive.
Unfortunately the company went bust for various economic reasons,and the shuttle was sold in USA.