As part of their expedition, the two planted the American flag on the ... Lying on the moon's surface, coupled with the Sun's ultraviolet rays hitting it constantly for over half a century ...

More than a half-century after US astronauts first planted the Stars and Stripes on the moon, China replicated the feat — though unmanned — by unfurling its red flag on the lunar surface.

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.

And the remaining three to five American flags on the Moon may or may not still be recognizable as the Stars and Stripes. The government-issue nylon flags weren't made to stand up to unfiltered UV ...

John Monsky is a collector of stories. They live within the stars and stripes of American flags — or, at the very least, what ...

China has planted its flag on the Moon, more than 50 years after the US first planted the Stars and Stripes there. The pictures from China's National Space Administration show the five-starred Red ...

Despitehaving launched satellites for two-and-a-half years prior to the 50-star flagbeing unfurled, the country's first flag did not enter ... replica of theman-made moon above their heads.

"It's right up there with Betsy Ross and the Star Spangled Banner,'' Orenstein said. NASA's original plans didn't involve planting a flag on the moon because of a United Nations treaty prohibiting ...

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that ... Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking adventure in July 1969.