Long before Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams got stuck on the space station, Apollo 11 astronauts were having their own ...
Planting an American ... holding the flag taut fail to extend all the way, but the two astronauts could penetrate the lunar surface only about half as deep as the flagpole required because of the ...
Humanity had reached the Moon. On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong ... The sight of the American flag standing proudly on the lunar surface became a powerful visual representation of ...