Research work on building China's Chang'e 7 lunar exploration mission includes sending a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. "We know that the moon is vacuum with no ...

Create Account Now China, which has plans to put its own astronauts on the moon in the near future, is planning to one-up its American counterparts with a flag that will actually flutter and wave.

Now, over half a century later, we will soon finally get the first actually waving flag on the Moon. In 2026, China intends to send the Chang'e-7 mission to the lunar south pole. Onboard this ...

The Chang'e 7 mission will consist of a lander, a rover and a mobile hopper, according to Chinese state media outlet Xinhua, ...

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 ...

Research work on building China's Chang'e 7 lunar exploration mission includes sending a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. "We know that the moon is vacuum with no air, ...

But that seminal event in vexillological history was not without a lot of debate, discussion and early worries that were run up the policy flagpole about "who owns the moon?" (Vexillology is the study ...