Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong is captured in an image taken by fellow moonwalker, Buzz Aldrin, following flag planting on the moon in July 1969. | Credit: NASA Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient ...

Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon." Platoff explains that Apollo 11's flag-raising on the moon was strictly a symbolic activity. Given that the United States was a ...

Duke took the flags with him to the Moon on Apollo 16 in 1972. “We are grateful to General Duke for this generous ...

Aldrin is still planting flags 56 years after he did so on the moon, only now it is in a commercial asking "Can you text me ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...

Apollo flags' condition questioned after decades on the moon Flags on the moon likely degraded from sunlight and meteor impacts Apollo flags remain a powerful symbol despite physical decay ...

versus the difficulty of seeing a 1.5 by 0.9 meter flag at such a distance. My scope is good, but not that good. During the US Apollo program, six crewed missions landed on the Moon starting with ...

It has been 54 years since NASA landed astronauts on the Moon for the third time. On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan ...

Three months before the Apollo 11 mission, the astronaut was asked how he would respond to 'extraterrestrial life on the moon ...