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> mankind did even get to the Moon with its flag The US flag is the flag of Mankind? Interesting.

• Strom 10y ago
  Well yes, a flag, one of many. It's ownership description via superset, it doesn't mean it's THE flag of mankind.
  • hartpuff 10y ago
    Which is why it shouldn't say "its (Mankind's) flag". The USA (to its credit) dedicated the Apollo mission to Mankind (which Soviet cosmonauts were pleasantly surprised by) but the flag was planted as a symbol of the USA. (Other considered options, such as the flags of all countries, were rejected.) The flags, if they still exist, are likely to be blank now anyway.
    • DrScump 10y ago
      <The flags, if they still exist, are likely to be blank now anyway.> Didn't at least one LRO photo show a clear shadow of a flag at one of the Apollo sites?