Astronauts placed six different American flags on the moon during the Apollo program. What became of those flags in the years ...

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

Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking ... run up the policy flagpole about "who owns ...

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, as the Moon ...

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain ... of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking ...

Buzz Aldrin, standing in front of the American flag, represents a solemn image of mankind's first step into another world. This is not simply a technical or scientific scene: it's a veritable cultural ...

Tranquility Base, the WMF's page on preserving the Moon reads, is one of over 90 historic landing and impact sites that "mark ...

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands on the moon facing a U.S. flag during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. Sample from this mission were gifted to Ireland and later destroyed in a fire. Astronaut Buzz ...