The problem was that a regular flag would look somewhat disappointing, as the Moon has an incredibly thin atmosphere, meaning the stars and stripes ... into the ground by one astronaut, before ...

The Stars and Stripes ... The next one was in December 1972. In the early 1990s, scientist Ann Platoff did a large-scale study of the placement of US flags on the moon. She found that there ...

When American astronauts landed on the moon in 1969, one of their first tasks ... a shower curtain rod, so the flag could hang fully unfurled, all its stars and stripes showing.