{"id":204344,"date":"2025-01-23T02:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/china-to-plant-flapping-flag-on-moon-a-lunar-first"},"modified":"2025-01-23T02:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:37:15","slug":"china-to-plant-flapping-flag-on-moon-a-lunar-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/china-to-plant-flapping-flag-on-moon-a-lunar-first","title":{"rendered":"China to Plant \u2018Flapping\u2019 Flag on Moon: A Lunar First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-to-plant-flapping-flag-on-moon-a-lunar-first.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the most often asked questions I get, while showing off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/moon\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">the Moon<\/a> to the public. \u201cCan you see the flag the astronauts left there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This then leads to a discussion on how far the Moon is, versus the difficulty of seeing a 1.5 by 0.9 meter flag at such a distance. My scope is good, but not that good.<\/p>\n<p>During the US Apollo program, six crewed missions landed on the Moon starting with Apollo 11 in 1969, leaving a like number of flags. Now, China recently announced that one more flag will join the collection in late 2026, when Chang\u2019e 7 heads to the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of the most often asked questions I get, while showing off the Moon to the public. \u201cCan you see the flag the astronauts left there?\u201d This then leads to a discussion on how far the Moon is, versus the difficulty of seeing a 1.5 by 0.9 meter flag at such a distance. My [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}