Posted on 08/02/2013 1:52:52 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Since the United States landed on the Moon on July 20th 1969, there has been an American flag standing on its surface. While 5 out of the 6 flags still stand (Neil Armstrong reported that Apollo 11′s flag was knocked over by engine thrust), the colors of Old Glory have faded due to the Suns harsh radiation.
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. 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!
The original Apollo flags cost NASA $5.50 and made of nylon by Annin Flagmakers.
On the surface of Earth, even with our protective atmosphere, flags flown in bright sunlight for 44 years will fade severely. The Moon doesnt have any protection or shade so the flags on its surface would have been exposed to glaring sunlight since they were planted. They are also bombarded by the Suns radiation due to not having any protection.
Lunar scientist Paul Spudis explains:
Over the course of the Apollo program, our astronauts deployed six American flags on the Moon. For forty-odd years, the flags have been exposed to the full fury of the Moons environment alternating 14 days of searing sunlight and 100° C heat with 14 days of numbing-cold -150° C darkness. But even more damaging is the intense ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the pure unfiltered sunlight on the cloth from which the Apollo flags were made. Even on Earth, the colors of a cloth flag flown in bright sunlight for many years will eventually fade and need to be replaced. So it is likely that these symbols of American achievement have been rendered blank, bleached white by the UV radiation of unfiltered sunlight on the lunar surface. Some of them may even have begun to physically disintegrate under the intense flux.
This must be a lie. Sheila Jackson has the Pathfinder rovers looking for the flags we planted on MARS. Don’t you guys know nuthin’?
Somebody should ask Sheila Jackson Lee to tell us the color of the flags we left on Mars.
Actually, perhaps the flags on the moon turned white after an Obama executive order for the surrender of the US to the whole universe.
Not for $5.50 they weren’t. They were likely just nylon sheets with the stars and stripes dyed on.
These days they’d cost $40,000 each and would be made (of cheaper material) in China by one of Obamateur’s friends. Or they’d be sewn at some union garment factory at $100 per star and $250 a stripe. It would take 4 years to make them, there would be 57 stars and 14 stripes, and they would unravel 5 minutes after launch.
Dangit, beat me to it.
Remember, that’s $5.50 in 1970s dollars.
Lol! True enough. That’s back when union garment “workers” were only demanding $50 an hour.
Oliver Stone will do a documentary stating Nixon went on that moon trip and that is why he was taken out by the clintons in the fake watergate scandal!
(JJ Abrams to do the directing of all action sequences)
Can’t someone just drive out to Nevada and replace them?
Are you sure NASA was a government agency then? I would expect the flags would have cost the taxpayers about $5,500 per item.
We didn't just plant flags, we left a plaque that states Richard Nixon was on the Moon. A president! Priceless! What do the Democrats have? John Glenn orbiting the earth? What's her name's husband taking one shuttle mission and quitting?
Look at the picture and read the plaque. If you were an uninformed Obama voter, that can read, what would you make of it?
I don't know, "At this point, what does it matter?" He did it!
The plaque say he was there. If you disagree, go and change it. History is made by those who write it. Maybe when he said, "I am not a crook, he was already an astronaut?
Someone is going to have to go up there and change that A.D. to a C.E. or the atheists will sue.
and Richard Nixon was on the moon!
Someday the history books will cite that as a fact
White flags? Planted by White astronauts? Who went there on a white rocket???
“If the flags be white, I must incite!”. ... Jesse Jackson
They say revenge is a dish best served white. Deep space is very white. Goodbye Jesse Jackson!
Then launch him into space.
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