I looked through all 14,227 photos from the Apollo Missions. Here’s what I found.

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Prior to the Apollo missions, the United Nations passed a treaty stating, “outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation.” But a young NASA <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/engineer" target="_blank">engineer</a>, Tom Moser, was tasked with creating a flag in secret that could be deployed on the moon. “Someone in Congress said ‘make it happen,’” he said. So he created a collapsible flagpole with extendable horizontal rods sewn into the seams and snuck it onto the shuttle hours before the Apollo 11 launch.