I looked through all 14,227 photos from the Apollo Missions. Here’s what I found.
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The views are out of this world.I don’t think I could get anything done with that view.There’s no flag waving in space.Prior to the Apollo missions, the United Nations passed a treaty stating, “outer #space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation.” But a young NASA engineer, Tom Moser, was tasked with creating a flag in secret that could be deployed on the moon. “Someone in Congress said ‘make it happen,’” he said. So he created a collapsible flagpole with extendable horizontal rods sewn into the seams and snuck it onto the shuttle hours before the Apollo 11 launch.Do you see the rods sewn into the fabric of the flag?When Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong tried to set up the flag they ran into a snag. “As hard as we tried, the telescope wouldn’t fully (...)
