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From: mike@bambi.UUCP (Michael Caplinger)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: US flags on the Moon
Message-ID: <110@bambi.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 23:53:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 22 23:53:35 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 11:44:57 EDT
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I just watched the third show of SPACEFLIGHT today, and some footage of
the Apollo 11 LM liftoff taken out of the window made me wonder about
this question:  is there any film evidence that any of the flags at
the various Apollo landing sites were knocked over by the exhaust
blast of the LM liftoff?  You can't tell on the Apollo 11 footage
(though the flag seems to really be taking a beating) but I know there
were cameras on the Lunar Rovers of the later flights, and they should
have been able to show the site well after liftoff.

Authur C. Clarke describes (in IMPERIAL EARTH) a battle between two
factions of lunar preservationists - one group wants to put the flag
at Tranquillity back up ("we're only RESTORING it").

	Michael Caplinger
	mike@bellcore.arpa
	ihnp4!bambi!mike


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