HOUSTON, Texas -- The buzz in space world today is that NASA has made it official: All but one of the American flags planted on the moon by the Apollo astronauts are still standing. Not so cool is ...

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.

They also left a gold replica of an olive branch, a symbol for peace. ... Buzz Aldrin faces the first American flag planted on the moon.

These flags were also not specially made to survive on the moon, but just ones anyone could pick up at a local store. Apollo 17, launched on December 7, 1972, featured the last humans to walk on ...

It may be the last unsolved mystery of the 1969 moon landing. Did a New Jersey company manufacture the flag that Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, a Montclair native, planted on ...

NASA has finally answered a long-standing question: all but one of the six American flags on the Moon are still standing up. Everyone is now proudly talking about it. The only problem is that they ...

The moon doesn't have any atmosphere to absorb sunlight, and outside of craters there is no shade. This means the flags planted by the Apollo astronauts are exposed to constant, gleaming sunlight ...