When NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, it put the best of American science and engineering to the test.

Aldrin is still planting flags 56 years after he did so on the moon, only now it is in a commercial asking "Can you text me ...

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same condition as when they were first deployed on the lunar surface.

and ease of assembly by astronauts whose space suits restricted their range of movement and ability to grasp items," Platoff explains. Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin later recounted in an ...