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Over the past 50 years, 6 flags have been planted on the lunar surface, and the first one was in 1969. Scientists have been ...

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An American flag that circled the Moon during the historic Apollo 11 mission is up for auction. The flag, carried in lunar orbit by Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, is estimated to fetch £37k ...

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While Article II of the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty makes it clear that the Moon “is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of occupation, or by any other ...

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. But that seminal event in ...