When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon and erected the American flag there... is the flag still there?

Question

Is it?

Answer 1

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The flag Neil Armstrong and Buzz Alrin erected on the moon is still there but is not standing up. The exhaust from their take-off knocked over the flag.

Answer 2

yup, no one there to take it and no wind to knock it down.

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure it still is. THere's no one up there to take it down. And there's no wind to tear it down. I'm sure it's still there and probably will be there for many many years....

Answer 4

Flags were planted at each of the landing sites. All the flags remain, as well as the bases of the landing vehicles. The Lunar Rover remains on the surface as well.

Answer 5

No, the flag is not still waving. Eventually the very few air particles that are still around the moon would strike the flag and slow down its motion. Friction from the flag and flag pole would also slow this down. Gravity - even the weak gravity on the moon - would work its attraction on the one loose corner of the flag and tug it downward.

Answer 6

Yep. The only thing that might have moved it was a collision
by an asteroid or space junk.

Of course there will be the whole alien thing and then other people will probably say we never went to the moon.

That wasn't your question.

But now that I think about it, I'm not sure it was Armstrong who put the flag there or Aldrin.

Then the whole thing could have been blown over by rocket blast.

So, the real question is, who's gonna go check on it?

Answer 7

No. Although the US flag was left standing on the moon, held unfurled by an aluminum rod set at the top of the flagpole, the flag material was nylon.

Nylon decomposes when exposed to the ultraviolet rays in sunlight. So the flag has long since turned into synthetic ashes.

Answer 8

I doubt anyone would take it down, and there's no air in space, so there can't be wind. Unless Germany went up and replaced our flag with theirs.

Answer 9

Should be if a rock hasn't hit it. The foot prints should last a few thousand years.