But do they have a flag?
skreidle posted Ten Things You Didn't Know About the Moon Landing. It's interesting, although I wouldn't go so far as to say I didn't know them. #9 caught my eye, though:
9. The flag was made by Sears, but NASA refused to acknowledge this because they didn’t want "another Tang."
When I went to Houston while doing Air Force stuff a couple years ago, we were told that they had requested three flags from three different manufacturers, then refused to say which one had been actually planted in order to avoid being used as a marketing tool (ie, "another Tang"). This flag is hanging in old mission control and is one of the ones which wasn't used. I imagine someone could have gone back and looked at the tags/records and figured out which one was selected to determine it was Sears, but those details are still important to the story, as far as I'm concerned. I realize the #9 version has probably been shortened to soundbite length for that top ten entry, but the discrepancy still rankles. Imprecise.
9. The flag was made by Sears, but NASA refused to acknowledge this because they didn’t want "another Tang."
When I went to Houston while doing Air Force stuff a couple years ago, we were told that they had requested three flags from three different manufacturers, then refused to say which one had been actually planted in order to avoid being used as a marketing tool (ie, "another Tang"). This flag is hanging in old mission control and is one of the ones which wasn't used. I imagine someone could have gone back and looked at the tags/records and figured out which one was selected to determine it was Sears, but those details are still important to the story, as far as I'm concerned. I realize the #9 version has probably been shortened to soundbite length for that top ten entry, but the discrepancy still rankles. Imprecise.