No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long range exploration of space, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. Now there are six U. Each flag was deliberately designed with the same flaw to prevent the horizontal telescoping rod from fully extending. So when astronauts from the United States, or another nation, return to the moon, they will still find the rippled flag flying at Tranquility Base.
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For this reason the name of the manufacturer cannot be determined. Randy Beard, Sr. His company had supplied many flags to NASA throughout the manned space flight program. Beard was told that three secretaries had been sent out to buy 3x5-foot nylon flags during their lunch hours. After they had returned it was discovered that all of them had purchased their flags at Sears. Annin was the official flag supplier for Sears at the time so this story seemed to confirm that the flag had been made by Annin.
Beard was informed that NASA would not confirm the manufacturer of the flag because they didn't "want another Tang" -- in other words, the agency did not want another advertising campaign based upon the fact that a commercial product had been used by the astronauts. Jack Kinzler was unable to verify that the flags were purchased at local stores or that the labels were removed. Moser, "Insulation Configuration," drawing and data from the personal files of Jack Kinzler. I, 31 July , pp.
Buzz Aldrin noted that "just beneath the powdery surface, the subsoil was very dense. Neil Armstrong played the ukulele while in the quarantine chamber at Ellington Air Force Base on July 27, , after returning to earth. The Apollo 11 liftoff from the Moon came early, ending a hour stay on the Moon by Armstrong and Aldrin.
Apollo 11 splashed down at a. EDT on July 24, , about nautical miles southwest of Hawaii. Pictured: President Richard M. Nixon waits on the deck of the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, for the Apollo 11 crew to arrive. Armstrong greets his son, Mark, on a telephone intercom system, while his wife, Janet, and another son, Eric, look on.
Neil Armstrong celebrates his 39th birthday on August 5, , while still in confinement. Thousands of Houstonians turned out on Aug. A piece of the Wright Flyer, along with a byinch flag and medal honoring the astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 fire went to the moon with Armstrong in Pictured: A 1. But the team preparing for the Apollo 11 mission — the first to land on the moon — got the idea of planting a flag about two months before launch on July 16, , he said.
First, Apollo 11 like every other spacecraft in human history had very little room to spare, and very little available mass to allocate to frivolous things like flagpoles, so the flagpole had to be light and compact.
Second, the flag had to look good on camera; with no wind to make it wave, engineers worried that the flag would just droop unimpressively. To make sure to the flag was properly photogenic and not disappointingly droopy, Kinzler decided to hang its top edge from a horizontal crossbar, which folded out from the top of the flagpole and locked into place. He hemmed the top edge of the flag into a sleeve that would slide over the crossbar, exactly the way a curtain slides onto a curtain rod.
The lower corner of the flag would also connect to the flagpole. And to make the whole thing fit aboard the lunar module, the pole broke down into two pieces. The idea was that one astronaut would use a rock-sampling hammer to drive the lower section of the pole into the lunar surface while the other folded out the crossbar on the top section and attached the flag. Then they would slide the top section onto the bottom section, salute, and take photographs. Of course, Kinzler's design had to take into account that in their bulky, awkward spacesuits, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin couldn't reach higher than 66 inches cm or bend over to reach lower than 28 inches 71 cm.
He built the whole thing out of 1-inch 2. In the end, it weighed less than 10 pounds 4. However, the flag itself was about as simple as it could get; NASA ordered a 3 x 5-ft. Conspiracy theorists love to point out the ripples in the flag, as if it's gently flapping in an alien breeze.
They cite the rippling stars and stripes as proof that the whole thing must have been staged somewhere with an atmosphere -- here on Earth, in othe words. Of course, these are the same conspiracy theorists who like to claim the Moon landing was actually a Stanley Kubrick film, and the least plausible part of that scenario is the idea that Kubrick would be so sloppy about the effects.
It's like they've never seen A Space Odyssey. Naturally, there's a much better explanation.
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