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Why did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin plant a flag on the moon? Moreover, why do astronauts and space agencies from across the world continually send their nations’ flags to space? Today, Danielle traces the history and symbolism of flags around the world and examines their use in colonial expansion – both on Earth and in the stars.
Created and Hosted by Danielle Bainbridge
Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios
#MoonLanding #Apollo11 #Colonialism
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Works Cited:
https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/red-white-and-blue-US-flag.pdf
https://time.com/4193801/outer-space-treaty-moon/
https://gizmodo.com/all-the-american-flags-on-the-moon-are-now-white-5930450
https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/apollo-moon-flags-still-standing/
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15FlagDeployment.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/american-flags-moon-color-bleached-white-2017-4
https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/flag/flag.htm
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/533d95/abstract-the-political-and-technical-aspects-of-placing-a-flag-on-the-moon
https://peepsforum.com/international-flag-planet-earth/
https://nava.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/icv24platoff.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS4gpRCjIbE
https://2009-2017.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htm
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-continuously-used-national-flag/
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/contact/text7/requirement.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/science/space/18moon.html
Gilroy, Paul, 1956-. The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Mass. :Harvard University Press, 1993.
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