"The flag has been displayed on every US spacecraft designed for manned flight, including Mercury, Gemini, Apollo Command/Service Module, Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle. The flag also appeared on the S-IC first stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle used for Apollo. But since Mercury, Gemini and Apollo were launched and landed vertically and were not capable of horizontal atmospheric flight like an airplane, the "streaming" convention was not followed and these flags were oriented with the stripes running horizontally, perpendicular to the direction of flight."
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234 posted on 07/21/2012 4:24:45 PM PDT by trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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236 posted on 07/21/2012 4:29:37 PM PDT by trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
