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Flags from Apollo moon landing still standing, photos reveal
Fox News ^ | July 30, 2012 | Clara Moskowitz

Posted on 07/30/2012 7:11:53 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

Apollo 17 flag found, LRO slewed 19° down-Sun allowing the illuminated side of the still standing American flag to be captured at the Apollo 17 landing site. M113751661L [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

(LRO slewed 19° down-Sun allowing the illuminated side of the still standing American flag to be captured at the Apollo 17 site.)

An enduring question ever since the manned moon landings of the 1960s has been: Are the flags planted by the astronauts still standing?

Now, lunar scientists say the verdict is in from the latest photos of the moon taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC): Most do, in fact, still stand.

"From the LROC images it is now certain that the American flags are still standing and casting shadows at all of the sites, except Apollo 11," LROC principal investigator Mark Robinson wrote in a blog post today (July 27). "Astronaut Buzz Aldrin reported that the flag was blown over by the exhaust from the ascent engine during liftoff of Apollo 11, and it looks like he was correct!"

Each of the six manned Apollo missions that landed on the moon planted an American flag in the lunar dirt.

Scientists have examined images of the Apollo landing sites before for signs of the flags, and seen hints of what might be shadows cast by the flags. However, this wasn't considered strong evidence that the flags were still standing. Now, researchers have examined photos taken of the same spots at various points in the day ...

Apollo 16 Flag Salute, John Young captured saluting the flag while jumping! A great demonstration of the lower gravity on the Moon. Apollo 16 Lunar Module (LM) Orion and the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) are in the background [NASA/Charlie Duke].

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: americanflag; apollo; apollo11; apollo12; apollo14; apollo15; apollo16; apollo17; apollomissions; astronaunts; moon; moonlanding; nasa; oldglory; realestate; starsandstripes; tothemoon; usflag
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1 posted on 07/30/2012 7:12:02 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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2 posted on 07/30/2012 7:12:49 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

I haven’t heard of anything to blow it down. Not much wind in the Sea of Tranquillity.


3 posted on 07/30/2012 7:16:15 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.)
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To: DogByte6RER

So, are these LRO photos of the Apollo sites going to quiet down the conspiracy theorists? I’m sure there will be diehards, but I don’t think they will have much traction.


4 posted on 07/30/2012 7:19:19 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: DogByte6RER

Just wait till the Chinese go and play capture the flag and stick theres in its place


6 posted on 07/30/2012 7:19:33 PM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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To: DogByte6RER

If the worst happens and Obama stays in our White House for four more years (God forbid!), it’s nice to know that our flag will still fly somewhere. I’d take a planet with no atmosphere over one ruled by a communist thug. I wonder how close we are to being able to settle the moon as a private expedition.


7 posted on 07/30/2012 7:19:39 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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"See? The flag is still on Mars, as I, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee, former member of the House Committee on Outer Space, had confirmed when I visited the Norwegian Assemblage of Space Astronauts, better known to you in the public as NASA."
8 posted on 07/30/2012 7:23:32 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Unless of course the gargomytes trample it down.


9 posted on 07/30/2012 7:24:26 PM PDT by Yardstick
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ping


10 posted on 07/30/2012 7:24:45 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: Past Your Eyes
I haven’t heard of anything to blow it down. Not much wind in the Sea of Tranquillity.

Didn't you even read the thing?

11 posted on 07/30/2012 7:25:12 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: DogByte6RER; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono; Daffynition; Slings and Arrows

That is pretty amazing! They’ve kept the Burbank studio set intact all those years?


12 posted on 07/30/2012 7:27:00 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: DogByte6RER
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Stupid) sits on the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.

On a visit to the JPL she asked if the Mars Rover would be able to show "the flag the astronauts planted there before".


13 posted on 07/30/2012 7:27:47 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: Pollster1

I wonder when obama is going to pay the Russians, the Chinese, or some private company to go get that flag back. Then he can apologize to the whole world. And the universe.


14 posted on 07/30/2012 7:27:59 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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15 posted on 07/30/2012 7:29:25 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: DogByte6RER
I wonder if we'd ever have the balls to plant the US flag ever again.

I can foresee the day when the US taxpayer will foot the bill for an "international" mission to Mars, maybe we'd get a Rainbow flag.

To date, the Apollo missions have been the high point of the American experiment.

16 posted on 07/30/2012 7:30:33 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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More refernce ...

Six Flags on the Moon:
What is Their Current Condition?

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html


17 posted on 07/30/2012 7:31:20 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

US flags still standing? Wait till the kenyan CSer piece of filth hears about this!


18 posted on 07/30/2012 7:31:31 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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To: Yardstick
"Your search - gargomytes - did not match any documents." - Wow!


19 posted on 07/30/2012 7:32:13 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: LostInBayport

Actually, the first flag was placed there by the Blackstronauts, if I may say, or point out, or state, if you will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H8TJv0C58Q


20 posted on 07/30/2012 7:32:13 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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