Hurley and Behnken, at left, will take the flag back to Earth with them aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. The space station’s current commander, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, is at right ...

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.

Perhaps the most important souvenir they'll bring back to Earth is a small American flag that traveled on both the first space shuttle mission (STS-1 in 1981) and the last (STS-135 in 2011).

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 ...

NASA knows what to do with the Pride flag: send them all to space. Thankfully, the unholy month of June is over, but that didn’t stop the clowns running America’s space program from getting in ...

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.

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The American flag has played a prominent role in NASA missions; ... The Apollo 17 crew captured this close-up view of the United States flag with the crescent Earth in the background.

MOON landing conspiracy theorists are convinced the American flag planted by NASA’s Apollo 11 flapped and waved on the wind, proving the Moon landing was filmed here on Earth.