The same is possibly the case for the Apollo 15 flag, which was planted on the moon on July 26, 1971, by astronauts David R. Scott, James B. Irwin, and Alfred M. Worden.

With the flag is Thomas Moser, then a NASA design engineer who was assigned to test Jack Kinzler’s design for safety during June 1969, before it went to the Moon.

The 3-by-5-foot nylon flag and pole had to be specially designed because the moon's lack of atmosphere means flags can't fly in the breeze. A horizontal crossbar was added to keep the $5.50 flag ...

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same condition as when they were first deployed on the lunar surface.

China's Chang'e 7 moon-landing mission will apparently include a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Space.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. Monday, beginning a nearly six-year, 1.8-billion-mile voyage to Jupiter, where it will study the frozen moon Europa, scanning below its ...

Europa Clipper will face a challenge once it reaches the planet's moon — exposure to radiation, since the moon is within Jupiter’s magnetic field.

Now, over half a century later, we will soon finally get the first actually waving flag on the Moon. In 2026, China intends to send the Chang'e-7 mission to the lunar south pole.

China's Chang'e-6 has unfurled the first flag to be flown on the dark side of the moon before returning to Earth with valuable rock samples that could reveal the moon's ancient history.

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may possess a subsurface sea and is considered one of the most promising worlds to explore for life. JPL-Caltech/NASA, SETI Institute. Share this: ...

Europa is an icy ocean world—and NASA is finally going to explore it. For the first time, NASA is journeying to this mysterious moon to determine if it might be able to host alien life.

Under its bright, frosty shell, Jupiter’s moon Europa is thought to harbor a salty ocean, making it a world that might be one of the most habitable places in our solar system. But most life as ...