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To: Knitebane
It's fairly common knowledge that the flag planted by Aldrin and Armstrong was blown down by their launch back into lunar orbit

Excellent, that means it can be easily seen.....

or can it?

67 posted on 10/24/2005 4:02:13 AM PDT by Nitro
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To: Nitro
With the right equipment, yes.

Since no one but a few raving nutjobs see the need for such a pointless project, it hasn't been done.

Feel free to start a fund for such a project. I'd much rather see NASA spend money on the CEV, high-altitude and hypersonic research and the next-generation space telescope.

68 posted on 10/24/2005 4:11:29 AM PDT by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: Nitro; Knitebane
Excellent, that means it can be easily seen.....

No. Film from the liftoff showed the flag being blown over.

104 posted on 10/24/2005 2:06:59 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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