Just between you and me, we got a very serious problem with the people taking care of the place. They turned out to be completely unreliable assholes.
Annie Platoff, a librarian at UC Santa Barbara, is on a mission to find out what happened to the American flags that astronauts planted on the moon during the six lunar landings.
Platoff’s research pinpointed four of them, including the one from Apollo 17, the final lunar mission. At the very least, the nylon national symbols are “tattered” and have “darkened” over the years. She speculates that the other two, planted during Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, fell victim to the ignition gases emitted from the lunar module during blast-off.
artwork { Jasper Johns, Green Flag, 1956 | Graphite pencil, crayon and collage on paper }
