Still U.S. flags on the Moon?


One of the most dramatic categories of evidence that the U.S. landed men on the Moon is the detritus and other stuff they left behind.  Now we have satellites orbiting the Moon that can send back images of the landing sites with an amazing amount of detail.

Around the 4th of July somebody usually wonders how those flags left behind, are doing.

CBS News reporter Jim Axelrod asked around; you can see his report at YouTube (CBS disallows embedding of these reports, so you’ll need to click the image a couple of times to go to the YouTube site for CBS):

(720 views of this report when I posted this; come on, news hounds, flag fliers and Moon and history buffs, you can boost that total.)

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 7th, 2011 at 5:19 pm and is filed under Flag ceremony, Flag etiquette, History, Moon, NASA, Space exploration, Space Race. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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