Apollo Moon flags still standing

[Waspie_Dwarf]

Apollo Moon flags still standing

Images taken by a Nasa spacecraft show that the American flags planted in the Moon's soil by Apollo astronauts are mostly still standing.

The photos from Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter (LRO) show the flags are still casting shadows - except the one planted during the Apollo 11 landing.

This matches Buzz Aldrin's account of the flag being knocked over by engine exhaust as Apollo 11 lifted off.

LRO was designed to produce the most detailed maps yet of the lunar surface.

Each of the Apollo missions planted an American flag in the soil at their landing sites.

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Edited July 31, 2012 by Waspie_Dwarf
corrected title

[ExpandMyMind]

Read this one earlier. It's quite cool, thanks for posting.

[Gary Meadows]

Well get back up there and fix it!

[questionmark]

So much for the fake lunar landing stories.

[Gary Meadows]

So much for the fake lunar landing stories.

The deniers will cling to it no matter what.

[spud the mackem]

They haven't been stolen ? yet ! or maybe replaced by a red flag with a crescent moon and 4 stars on it !

[+and-then]

They haven't been stolen ? yet ! or maybe replaced by a red flag with a crescent moon and 4 stars on it !

Those that come after us might vandalize the sites if they're petty enough, but they can't really change history. A FREE nation inhabited by FREE peoples did that and no one can ever change that fact.

[Waspie_Dwarf]

They haven't been stolen ? yet ! or maybe replaced by a red flag with a crescent moon and 4 stars on it !

What is it with you and the Chinese on the moon? Every story about the moon we get a post like this. You could at least try to make posts based on fact.

China has yet to land even an unmanned craft on the moon.

China does not have a heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of sending a manned spacecraft to the moon.

China will not be in a position to land a man on the moon until at least 2020, probably much later.

[Waspie_Dwarf]

Those that come after us might vandalize the sites if they're petty enough, but they can't really change history. A FREE nation inhabited by FREE peoples did that and no one can ever change that fact.

Funny I didn't realise the UK landed first.

Just joking.

Edited July 30, 2012 by Waspie_Dwarf

[ReaperS_ParadoX]

Yeah its interesting I guess

[spud the mackem]

What is it with you and the Chinese on the moon? Every story about the moon we get a post like this. You could at least try to make posts based on fact.

China has yet to land even an unmanned craft on the moon.

China does not have a heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of sending a manned spacecraft to the moon.

China will not be in a position to land a man on the moon until at least 2020, probably much later.

ok dont get umptybacked about it,

[+and-then]

Funny I didn't realise the UK landed first.

Just joking.

Oh, trust me Waspie - I give credit where it's due, I just try not to mention too loudly or too often that our cousins across the pond were the original hard heads that peopled this nation

[Painnsufferin]

And just where would they have gone?

[BiffSplitkins]

And just where would they have gone?

I heard that Richard Kiel stole the flags when they were up there filming the Bond movie 'Moonraker'.

[Rafterman]

It seems like every day the conspiracists and deniers just look more and more pathetic.

"But, but, Rafterman, these could have easily been faked."

Right, because if I had faked humanities greatest and most public achievement (six times just for the heck of it) the first thing I'd want to do is spend a few more billion dollars to send a satellite up there to take pictures knowing I'd have to fake the results with such accuracy that no one would be able to tell they were fake.

Makes perfect sense to me.

[Coffey]

Those that come after us might vandalize the sites if they're petty enough, but they can't really change history. A FREE nation inhabited by FREE peoples did that and no one can ever change that fact.

Well.... It wouldn't be possible without a Nazi rocket engineer..... lol (well my wording is wrong, cause thye coudl ahve done it later but I emnat that exact time.. you know what i mean)

Edited July 31, 2012 by Coffey

[Hazzard]

Is this the death of the moonies hoax theory,...?

[King Fluffs]

I'd love to sell one of those flags on eBay...

[Coffey]

Is this the death of the moonies hoax theory,...?

Of cours eit isn't and not because people who beleive it was a Hoax will ignore this, but because how does it actually prove anything. The pictures could be fake and nobody would know.

[Waspie_Dwarf]

And just where would they have gone?

It's not a matter of them "going anywhere" it's just that most experts on the subject believed that the harsh environment would have caused the fabric of the flags to disintegrate.

[ChewiesArmy]

Of cours eit isn't and not because people who beleive it was a Hoax will ignore this, but because how does it actually prove anything. The pictures could be fake and nobody would know.

But why would they fake pictures of this now? Pretty much anybody in the space program then are now retired or dead. NASA could care less if there are people out there that think we faked the landing 40+ years ago.

[Junior Chubb]

Hang on a minute, if these pictures are fake are they the 'False Flags' people keep banging on about in other threads?

Imagine if they 'attacked' or carried out an 'operation' what would happen then......?

Edited August 1, 2012 by Junior Chubb

[Waspie_Dwarf]

Can we forget the hoax theory stuff and remain on topic just this one time please. That stuff has a forum of it's own.

[DONTEATUS]

Well I would think that someday we will return to the Moon And THen THe images will amaze just as the First ones did from the late 60`s ! Cant wait !

[csspwns]

what would really have been interesting is a flag of an alien race on the moon