{"id":94413,"date":"2019-08-04T04:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T11:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-american-flags-astronauts-planted-on-the-moon-are-disintegrating"},"modified":"2019-08-04T04:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T11:22:31","slug":"the-american-flags-astronauts-planted-on-the-moon-are-disintegrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-american-flags-astronauts-planted-on-the-moon-are-disintegrating","title":{"rendered":"The American flags astronauts planted on the moon are disintegrating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-american-flags-astronauts-planted-on-the-moon-are-disintegrating.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photos have stood the test of time: A spacesuit-clad <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apollo-moon-landing-photos-nasa-1969-2018-7 target=_blank > Apollo<\/a> astronaut stands proudly next to a red-white-and-blue American flag <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/moon-missions-why-astronauts-have-not-returned-2018-7 > on the moon<\/a>, his national trophy saying: \u201cThe United States was here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the six flags planted on the lunar surface from 1969 through 1972 haven\u2019t fared so well.<\/p>\n<p>Images taken by NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2012 showed that <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/american-flags-planted-on-the-moon-still-stand-2012-7 > at least five out six flags<\/a> were still standing. However, scientists think decades\u2019 worth of brilliant sunlight have bleached away their emblematic colors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photos have stood the test of time: A spacesuit-clad Apollo astronaut stands proudly next to a red-white-and-blue American flag on the moon, his national trophy saying: \u201cThe United States was here.\u201d Unfortunately, the six flags planted on the lunar surface from 1969 through 1972 haven\u2019t fared so well. Images taken by NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94413","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}