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 Apollo missions even contributed to pollution on the moon. There are estimated to be about 800 items still on the lunar ...

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 ...

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.

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.

BEIJING, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists are exploring the feasibility of an idea proposed by elementary school students: creating a flag that can wave on the airless moon. At the Deep Space ...

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 ...

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 air, ...