A former NASA astronaut has donated state of Kansas flags that made trips to the moon and back to the Cosmosphere.
Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same condition as when they were first deployed on the lunar surface.
Over the past 50 years, 6 flags have been planted on the lunar surface, and the first one was in 1969. Scientists have been trying to find out what happened to these flags. RBC-Ukraine reports when ...
Duke took the flags with him to the Moon on Apollo 16 in 1972. “We are grateful to General Duke for this generous ...
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.
Trump’s new decor of the Oval Office could reflect the president’s Mars-bias, chucking the lunar rock out of the White House.
Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest. And even that would be challenging. By Jonathan Corum The distance ...
"Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our ...
Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...
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 ...