Long before Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams got stuck on the space station, Apollo 11 astronauts were having their own ...
When the USA first sent astronauts to the Moon on Apollo 11, they wanted to plant an American flag on the surface ... sewn into it to hold it out. There were other problems to face, too ...
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 ...