Where No Flag Has Gone Before: Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon
Resource type
Author/contributor
- Platoff, Anne M. (Author)
Title
Where No Flag Has Gone Before: Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon
Abstract
How, exactly, did the Apollo 11 astronauts come to deploy a U.S. flag on the lunar surface? This paper, exploring the technical aspects and international considerations surrounding that $5.50 flag, won the Driver Award for the author in 1992.
Publication
Raven: A Journal of Vexillology
Publisher
North American Vexillological Association (NAVA)
Date
1994
Volume
1
Pages
3-16
Journal Abbr
Raven
ISSN
1071-0043
Archive
NAVA Digital Library
Language
[eng] English
Library Catalog
NAVA Publications Index (NPI) // International Vexillological Index (IVI)
License
open access
Extra
[IVI.CID] 70d7799b-57c7-4e99-9d5e-f5423e9426a3
Citation
Platoff, Anne M. 1994. “Where No Flag Has Gone Before: Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon.” Raven: A Journal of Vexillology 1: 3–16. NAVA Digital Library. https://www.nava.org/digital-library/Raven_v01_1994_p003-016.pdf.
Organization
Topic
- American Space Program
- Annin & Co
- Apollo 11 Flags
- Apollo Program
- Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing
- Dave McCraw
- design constraints
- Edward H. White II
- Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
- engineering constraints
- flag controversies
- flag deployment
- Flag on the Moon
- flags in exploration
- flags in space
- Jack Kinzler
- lunar flag assembly
- lunar flag-raising
- lunar flagpole
- Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC)
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Neil Armstrong
- Outer Space Treaty
- political aspects
- Randy Beard, Sr.
- technical design
- Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
- United States flag
- US flag
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