I have the book First Man, by James R. Hansen. The passage about the planting of the Flag mentions that they had some trouble with the telescoping poles, and also getting it deep enough into the surface to stand up.
I'm surprised the movie didn't include some bumbling scene of these difficulties as an 'America fail' type of thing. Says to me they didn't read the book as thoroughly as they want us to think.
21 posted on 10/13/2018 8:47:44 AM PDT by real saxophonist
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