But the story of the flags on the Moon, starting with Apollo 11, is a complicated mix of engineering, politics, and symbolism. Space Complicates Everything.

USA TODAY first published this story in July 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. July 20, 2020, marks 51 years since the moon landing. You know the photo: Buzz Aldrin, standing on ...

Apollo 11 Apollo 11 flag, flight plan page, roll of film used on the Moon up for auction. By James Rogers Fox News. Published June 19, 2019 5:15pm EDT | Updated June 19, 2019 5:31pm EDT. Facebook ...

Astronauts placed six different American flags on the moon during the Apollo program. What became of those flags in the years since, and why were they controversial?

MOON landing conspiracy theorists are convinced the American flag planted by NASA’s Apollo 11 flapped and waved on the wind, proving the Moon landing was filmed here on Earth. By Sebastian Kettley.

In NASA's Apollo 11 photos, the flag appears to be waving in the breeze, despite the fact that the moon has virtually no atmosphere, meaning there’s no wind. Comments. Science.

As the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission gets closer, a U.S. flag that flew to the Moon during the mission sold at auction for an out of this world sum: $62,500.

55 years ago today, Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking adventure in July 1969.

Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, is beside the U.S. flag during an Apollo 11 moon walk.

Although it’s been 52 years since the Apollo 11 mission first took man to the moon and 30 years since Tom Hanks famously told ...

Apollo 11 astronauts watched the Earth rise above the moon’s horizon on July 20, 1969. NASA / JSC. A camera was rolling as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin climbed down from the Eagle lunar lander ...