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5th Sep 2018, 18:11

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wiggy

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Ah..”Fun with Flags”...

Joking aside and never mind the the new Apollo film, there really is at least one academic paper on the subject of the Apollo flags here:

https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/flag/flag.htm

As can be seen the whole subject was both from a political and and engineering POV “non-trivial”.

FWIW as for today...

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html
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https://phys.org/news/2012-07-flags-...ites-moon.html

Last edited by wiggy; 5th Sep 2018 at 20:19.

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