In Platoff's report, she points out that NASA engineers were challenged by the prospect of Apollo astronauts raising a flag on the moon. "They designed a flagpole with a horizontal bar allowing ...

In Platoff's report, she points out that NASA engineers were challenged by the prospect of Apollo astronauts raising a flag on the moon. "They designed a flagpole with a horizontal bar allowing the ...

Over the past 50 years, 6 flags have been planted on the lunar surface, and the first one was in 1969. Scientists have been ...

When the USA first sent astronauts to the Moon on Apollo 11, they wanted to plant an American flag on the surface. The problem was that a regular flag would look somewhat disappointing ...

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 ...

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.

During his first term, the Republican launched the Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon as a stepping stone to the Red Planet — yet even then he expressed doubts about the Moon’s ...

"Can you image how awesome it will be to have American astronauts plant the flag on another planet for the first time ... as well as a a future human lunar lander known as Blue Moon. For now, there is ...

An FAA investigation into the anomaly is underway. NASA has picked SpaceX's Starship to land its Artemis astronauts on the moon on the Artemis 3 mission no earlier than 2027, after years of delay.