When the USA first sent astronauts to the Moon on Apollo 11, they wanted to plant an American flag on the surface. The ...

Chinese freeskier Liu Mengting. [Photo/Xinhua] HARBIN - As the night sky over Harbin glows with the lights of the Asian ...

So the design included not just an upright pole but a perpendicular extension like a shower curtain rod, so the flag could hang fully unfurled, all its stars and stripes showing. Now China ...

Research work on building China's Chang'e 7 lunar exploration mission includes sending a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. "We know that the moon is vacuum with no ...

China’s Chang’e 6 mission even carried a flag made of basalt ... which returned striking images of several astronauts saluting the stars and stripes on the lunar surface.

Research work on building China's Chang'e 7 lunar exploration mission includes sending a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. "We know that the moon is vacuum with no air, ...