NASA almost went to the Moon without packing an American flag. In fact, at the moment the space agency decided it wanted to take a flag, it was so close to the launch of the first Moon landing ...

NASA says it plans to send the flag back into space when the Artemis 2 crew goes on a round-the-moon trip in their Orion deep-space capsule, potentially as early as 2023.

NASA . This American flag flew outside one of the cupola windows of the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Jack Fischer captured the image during Expedition 51.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson delivers remarks during a flag-raising ceremony in recognition and celebration of Juneteenth on June 15, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in ...

It's a game of capture the flag that's taken nine years and billions of dollars. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will lay claim to a unique patriotic symbol that's been waiting for ...

However, the flag probably isn't still standing. The working presumption at NASA is that the flag fell, said John Uri, manager of the Johnson Space Center History Office.

The flag first rocketed to orbit on the inaugural space shuttle mission, STS-1. It was later left on the ISS by the crew of NASA's final space shuttle flight in 2011, called STS-135, of which ...

NASA'S 1969 Moon landing has been at the heart of conspiracy theory debates for more than half a century now and one major clue conspiracists cite is the flapping US flag planted on the Moon by ...

The flag was left on the space station during NASA’s final shuttle mission, STS-135, which included Hurley, with the intention that it would be captured by the next crew to launch from the US.

The story of the flags on the Moon, starting with Apollo 11, is a complicated mix of engineering, politics, and symbolism. ... Buzz Aldrin salutes the flag at Tranquility Base. NASA.

NASA officials described the engine-related problem with the agency’s moon rocket, which led to a launch delay Monday, as one more about plumbing than with the engine itself. Mike Sarafin, a NASA m ...

After the Apollo 11 mission, NASA planted five more flags on the Moon, some of which are still standing today. Apollo 11 landing had ‘geopolitical’ significance says El-Baz.