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

The Moon will soon get its first flapping flag, thanks to elementary school students from Changsha in central China's Hunan Province. When the USA first sent astronauts to the Moon on Apollo 11, they ...

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

Research work on building China's Chang'e 7 lunar exploration mission includes sending a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. "We know that the moon is vacuum with no ...

Chang'e 7 mission, slated to reach the moon's south pole next year, will include a flag that can flutter even in the vacuum of space You can save this article by registering for free here.

A part of Chang’e 7 mission, China is set to create a flag designed to wave on the Moon, despite the lack of oxygen.

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.

But that seminal event in vexillological history was not without a lot of debate, discussion and early worries that were run up the policy flagpole about "who owns the moon?" (Vexillology is the study ...